Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Genetics"

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

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Genetics Books

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Medical Microhistories

99 books — 94 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb Tsipursky

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky

Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization

49 books — 40 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Modern Science Nonfiction

486 books — 395 voters

100 books — 58 voters

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Escape from the Laboratory!

38 books — 4 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul Ola

Biology

164 books — 28 voters

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― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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“ Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone. ”
― Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies

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