Most Read This Week In 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 Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
The Master Builder: How the New Science of the Cell Is Rewriting the Story of Life
Breeding the Human Herd: Eugenics, Dysgenics and the Future of the Species
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution
The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

Timothy Ferris
“ I placed some of the DNA on the ends of my fingers and rubbed them together. The stuff was sticky. It began to dissolve on my skin. 'It's melting -- like cotton candy.' 'Sure. That's the sugar in the DNA,' Smith said. 'Would it taste sweet?' 'No. DNA is an acid, and it's got salts in it. Actually, I've never tasted it.' Later, I got some dried calf DNA. I placed a bit of the fluff on my tongue. It melted into a gluey ooze that stuck to the roof of my mouth in a blob. The blob felt slippery o ...more ”
― Timothy Ferris, The Best American Science Writing 2001

Therisa Peimer
“ Aurelia frowned. "Are you saying that you hang around the women at court to gather intel?" "Oh, Your Grace, you are quick on the uptake," he said with an impressed look on his face. "It's not fair. Flaminius always gets the hot ones. Does he have to get the smart ones too? ...more ”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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