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 Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America
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
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA
Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

Victor Robert Lee
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

Octavia E. Butler
A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not. ...more
Octavia E. Butler, Dawn

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