On the evening of Jan. 27, 1922, Franz Kafka arrived by horse-drawn sleigh at the mountain resort of Spindlermühle, in present-day Czech Republic, and immediately began working on what would be his ...

Genetics is rarely as simple as introductory biology classes make it seem. Only some biological traits, such as blood groups or dry ear wax, are linked to a single gene and passed on in the ...

Faculty member, Susan Liebman, Ph.D., research professor in UNRMed's Department of Pharmacology, published a new book, “The Dressmaker’s Mirror: Sudden Death, Genetics, and a Jewish Family’s Secret.” ...

A reader emailed me to ask what I thought would be a good way to better understand some of the more technical posts I put up. First, two course notes which I've found useful as personal references: - ...

Once upon a time, Kathryn Paige Harden was an evangelical teenager steeped in the doctrine of original sin. She learned almost from birth that humans are inherently flawed — and also doomed to pass ...

Henry T. Greely, Ethical Issues in Human Population Genetics, in Human Population Genetics: Evolution and Variation, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Marcus Feldman eds., London: Henry Stewart Talks, ...