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Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?

Should You Trust Big Pharma With Your DNA?

By Heather Hansman

‘Open Humans’ Wants To Be The Facebook Of Clinical Research

‘Open Humans’ Wants To Be The Facebook Of Clinical Research

By Alexandra Ossola

How A Former Nuclear Missileer Made A Color-Changing Petunia

How A Former Nuclear Missileer Made A Color-Changing Petunia

By Daniel Grushkin

Will Gardeners Buy A Color-Changing GMO Petunia?

Will Gardeners Buy A Color-Changing GMO Petunia?

By Brooke Borel

image showing two views of an illustrated face estimate, plus the real person

Modeling Suspects’ Faces Using DNA From Crime Scenes

By Francie Diep

Redesigned E. Coli Resists Viruses And Might Make GMOs Safer

Redesigned E. Coli Resists Viruses And Might Make GMOs Safer

By Francie Diep

Ancestry.com Reconstructs Genomes Of 19th-Century Couples Using Customers’ DNA

Ancestry.com Reconstructs Genomes Of 19th-Century Couples Using Customers’ DNA

By Francie Diep

In A Face-To-Face GMO Debate, The “For” Side Wins

In A Face-To-Face GMO Debate, The “For” Side Wins

By Francie Diep

It’s Official: Skeleton Found Under Parking Lot Is Richard III

It’s Official: Skeleton Found Under Parking Lot Is Richard III

By Mary Beth Griggs

How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins

How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins

By Andrew Rosenblum

USDA Approves A Genetically Modified Potato With Possible Health Benefits

USDA Approves A Genetically Modified Potato With Possible Health Benefits

By Francie Diep

Kitty DNA Shows Cats Have Evolved To Learn From Treats

Kitty DNA Shows Cats Have Evolved To Learn From Treats

By Francie Diep

A Genetic Mutation Renders One Family Unable To Sweat

A Genetic Mutation Renders One Family Unable To Sweat

Previous Sex Partners’ Semen Can Influence Fly Offspring

Previous Sex Partners’ Semen Can Influence Fly Offspring

Infant Possibilities

Infant Possibilities

By Melinda Wenner Moyer

DNA Sequencing Diagnoses Boy’s Mysterious Bacterial Disease

DNA Sequencing Diagnoses Boy’s Mysterious Bacterial Disease

By Francie Diep

What We Can Learn From Humans Who Don’t Age

What We Can Learn From Humans Who Don’t Age

By Francie Diep

This Microchip Heart Has A Rare Genetic Disease

This Microchip Heart Has A Rare Genetic Disease

By Francie Diep

Hunting For The Genetic Secret To A Rare Disease

Hunting For The Genetic Secret To A Rare Disease

By Francie Diep

Enjoy The Feeling Of Adderall? You May Be Less Likely To Develop ADHD

Enjoy The Feeling Of Adderall? You May Be Less Likely To Develop ADHD

By Douglas Main

Which Animal Species Would Fare Best After Noah’s Ark?

Which Animal Species Would Fare Best After Noah’s Ark?

By Francie Diep

In Most Ambitious DNA Building Project Ever, Scientists Make An Artificial Yeast Chromosome

In Most Ambitious DNA Building Project Ever, Scientists Make An Artificial Yeast Chromosome

By Francie Diep

How Nutrition In One Generation Can Change The Genetics Of The Next

How Nutrition In One Generation Can Change The Genetics Of The Next

By Francie Diep

The Scent Of Your Earwax May Yield Valuable Information

The Scent Of Your Earwax May Yield Valuable Information

By Francie Diep

Finding What Puts The Heat In Hot Peppers

Finding What Puts The Heat In Hot Peppers

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Breeding For High Milk Production Created Less-Fertile Cows

Breeding For High Milk Production Created Less-Fertile Cows

By Francie Diep

Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Worms

Humans May Have Fewer Genes Than Worms

By Douglas Main

Genetics In The Caribbean Show Marks Of Atlantic Slave Trade

Genetics In The Caribbean Show Marks Of Atlantic Slave Trade

By Francie Diep

How A Gene For Fair Skin Spread Across India

How A Gene For Fair Skin Spread Across India

By Francie Diep

Women’s Breasts Age Way Faster Than The Rest Of Their Bodies

Women’s Breasts Age Way Faster Than The Rest Of Their Bodies

By Shaunacy Ferro

The Case Of The Girl Who Couldn’t Feel Pain

The Case Of The Girl Who Couldn’t Feel Pain

By Francie Diep

Irradiated Seeds Combat World’s Most Serious Wheat Disease

Irradiated Seeds Combat World’s Most Serious Wheat Disease

By Francie Diep

New Evidence: When Did Humanity’s Last Common Male And Female Ancestors Live?

New Evidence: When Did Humanity’s Last Common Male And Female Ancestors Live?

By Francie Diep

Help Scientists Solve Mysteries Of The Brain By Watching Worms Lay Eggs

Help Scientists Solve Mysteries Of The Brain By Watching Worms Lay Eggs

By Francie Diep

What’s Next For Gene Patenting?

What’s Next For Gene Patenting?

By Francie Diep

Scientists Find One Gene Responsible For All White Tigers

Scientists Find One Gene Responsible For All White Tigers

By Francie Diep

Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains

Scientists Create Hybrid, Air-Transmissible Bird Flu Strains

By Rebecca Boyle

New Gene Therapy Braces T Cells Against HIV

New Gene Therapy Braces T Cells Against HIV

How Genetics Is Perfecting The Christmas Tree

How Genetics Is Perfecting The Christmas Tree

By Rebecca Boyle

FYI: What Makes Hair Curly?

Ask Us Anything

FYI: What Makes Hair Curly?

By Daniel Engber

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So

Are People Getting Dumber? One Geneticist Thinks So

By Rebecca Boyle

Where will the next pandemic come from?

Where will the next pandemic come from?

By David Quammen

After Pregnancy, Many Women Have Bits Of Male DNA In Their Brains

After Pregnancy, Many Women Have Bits Of Male DNA In Their Brains

By Colin Lecher

One Gene Lays The Blueprint for A Cheetah’s Spots And A Tabby Cat’s Stripes

One Gene Lays The Blueprint for A Cheetah’s Spots And A Tabby Cat’s Stripes

By Rebecca Boyle

Viral Gene Therapy Gives Non-Smelling Mice the Ability to Smell

Viral Gene Therapy Gives Non-Smelling Mice the Ability to Smell

By Rebecca Boyle

Light-Activated Muscle Could Make Robots Move Like Real Creatures

Light-Activated Muscle Could Make Robots Move Like Real Creatures

By Rebecca Boyle

Strong Hands and Voice Pitch Really Are Signs of Fertility

Strong Hands and Voice Pitch Really Are Signs of Fertility

By Jennifer Abbasi

Using DNA to Track the Spread of Bedbugs

Using DNA to Track the Spread of Bedbugs

By Brooke Borel

Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools

Genetic Bar Code Search Can Use RNA to Pick Out Individuals From Huge Gene Pools

By Rebecca Boyle

Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose

Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose

By Dan Nosowitz

New Genome Editing Method Helps Scientists Rewrite Whole Sections of the Code of Life

New Genome Editing Method Helps Scientists Rewrite Whole Sections of the Code of Life

By Rebecca Boyle

USDA Won’t Regulate Genetically Modified Grass, Sparking Superweed Worries

USDA Won’t Regulate Genetically Modified Grass, Sparking Superweed Worries

By Rebecca Boyle

Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers

Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers

By Rebecca Boyle

Vatican Praises Genetically Modified Crops, While U.S. Judge Orders Their Destruction

Vatican Praises Genetically Modified Crops, While U.S. Judge Orders Their Destruction

By Rebecca Boyle

How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber

How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber

By Rebecca Boyle

Snake With Clawed Foot Found In China

Snake With Clawed Foot Found In China

Why Does War Breed More Boys?

Why Does War Breed More Boys?

DNA and a New Kind of Racial Profiling

DNA and a New Kind of Racial Profiling

By Jessica Snyder Sachs