Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services ...

Question: Who can benefit from genetic counseling and testing? Answer: People with a previous cancer diagnosis or a family history of cancer or other diseases. A physician or certified genetic ...

Luckily, acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer is here to unravel the tangled history of the science and pseudoscience surrounding heredity, in all its many forms. In his expansive, engrossing, and ...

Coming to terms with a genetic illness in the family can leave a person with many questions. What does this mean for me? What does this mean for my child? Will my family be affected? Genetic ...

Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, answers listeners' questions about genetic testing. From NPR News, this is All Things ...

Genetics is the study of how living things pass traits or characteristics from one generation to another. Transmission and origin of specific inherited traits like colour of eyes, colour and texture ...

Increasing acceptance that evolution can be ‘rapid’ (or ‘contemporary’) has generated growing interest in the consequences for ecology. The genetics and genomics of these ‘eco-evolutionary dynamics’ ...

Francis S. Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health and was formerly the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Updated April 14, 2014, 9:09 PM Today, obtaining ...