Sam Kean
Uses for DNA may spread to far-flung fields like archaeology and fine arts
In the past couple of decades, genetics has revolutionized fields such as...medicine. In the next couple, expect DNA to turn ...
The delicious, religious debate over junk DNA
What exactly do "non-coding" regions of DNA do? As scientists sequence more genomes, we get closer to the answer to ...
Muscular dystrophy, Cri du Chat, “immigration delay disease”: When DNA fails
We’ve seen already how freely genetics borrows from grammar books to describe how DNA works. Linguistic analogies also help make ...