The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...
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Hitler’s DNA Shows He Likely Had a Micropenis Caused by a Rare Genetic Syndrome

The team ran polygenic risk scores, which are statistical predictions built from thousands of genetic markers, to estimate ...
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“Why Diversity in Genome Science and Medicine Is a Scientific and Social Justice Imperative”

The Department of Bioethics will host a talk with Charles Rotimi, scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Sept. 20, from 11 a ...

James Watson, co-discoverer of the shape of DNA and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 97

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution ...