Ruth Schwartz Cowan’s views of modern medical genetics have to be evaluated independently of her radical, revisionist history of eugenics (“Medical Genetics Is Not Eugenics,” The Chronicle Review, May ...

This release is available in German. The early history of genetics has to be re-written in the light of new findings. Scientists from the University Jena (Germany) in co-operation with colleagues from ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...

(CN) — A founder event — the formation of a new population from a small number of ancestral individuals — can be set off by a dramatic reduction of the original group or migration. These events ...

Archeological digs have told us a lot about human history, but genetic tools have been able to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge, and offer different perspectives on some findings. Researchers ...

Integrating mechanistic and evolutionary analysis of life history variation / Christian Braendle, Andreas Heyland, and Thomas Flatt -- Genomic insights into life history evolution / Derek A. Roff -- ...

Genetic mutations can impact the heart’s structure or electrical functions, potentially leading to inherited arrhythmias. Several types of heart arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation, Brugada ...

Baseline AMD severity and fellow-eye status were highly predictive of progression to AAMD. Family history was also predictive, especially for participants with two or more affected family members. The ...