I knew, back in March, that I was taking a gamble. The fourth edition of my human genetics textbook would be published in July, and judging from the rate of genomes being sequenced, it looked like ...

We needed those books to do well in class. Today, as a professor of genetics and biology at the University of Minnesota, I still hear my students complain about the price of their textbooks, just as I ...

issue regarding transgender individuals' use of public restrooms has made me think about how I've handled sex and gender in my human genetics textbook. Over the editions, the two topics have diverged.

All of this has been mostly theoretical -- until now. In a new study, researchers stored an entire genetics textbook in less than a picogram of DNA -- one trillionth of a gram -- an advance that ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently ...

The finding challenges textbook rules of inheritance ... plants pass the mutant gene on to their offspring, conventional genetics dictates that they will also have fused flowers.

Evenings with Genetics is a seminar series about genetics and your family’s health. This series offers the most current information on care and research for many genetic conditions and is open to the ...