Steph Yin
World’s largest family tree could help explain why we stopped marrying our cousins
Before the Industrial Revolution in the United States, Canada and Europe, you might have ended up married to a fourth ...
Why South Asia is a ‘living laboratory’ to study population genetics and disease
South Asians should be viewed not as a single population but as thousands of distinct groups reinforced by cultural practices ...
We may soon resurrect extinct species with genetic engineering — but should we?
Scientists just might revive the woolly mammoth...by splicing genes from ancient mammoths into Asian elephant DNA...But here’s a sad irony ...
Why we don’t inherit our father’s mitochondrial DNA
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our mitochondrial DNA accounts ...
DIY home CRISPR kits: Does egalitarian science compromise safety?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Growing up poor on ...
‘Search and replace’ CRISPR DNA tool gaining traction despite calls for moratorium
Momentum has been rapidly mounting around a technology called CRISPR-Cas9, often described as a “search and replace” tool for DNA. The reason? ...