genetics

Should you donate your DNA to help cure diseases?

Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?

What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?

The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"

The next software revolution: programming biological cells

How this disease changes the shape of your cells

How supercharged plants could slow climate change

How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?

An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease

How CRISPR lets you edit DNA

The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain

The age of genetic wonder

How we're building the world's largest family tree

How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

When genetic choice becomes personal

How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain

How digital DNA could help you make better health choices

The biology of our best and worst selves

What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's

The three different ways mammals give birth

Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it

King Richard III: Solving a 500-year-old cold case

A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases

How early life experience is written into DNA

What you need to know about CRISPR

What will humans look like in 100 years?

Do kids think of sperm donors as family?

How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers

Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever

The science of skin color

Why genetic research must be more diverse

How to read the genome and build a human being

How we can make crops survive without water

We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely

A new superweapon in the fight against cancer