As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age is precisely what its title claims it to be. Biologist Matthew Cobb (The Idea of the Brain) has examined both the potential and dangers of genetic ...

Between 1856 and 1863, an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel performed a series of pioneering experiments by breeding plants. Using garden peas (Pisum sativum), he demonstrated that traits such as seed ...

In 1980, a landmark paper described restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), a method predateding high volume DNA sequencing, that could be used to identify disease-causing genes. Ray ...

When applying ethical principles to the role of race in genomics, autonomy supports both the providing of information to an individual and the individual’s right to remain uninformed. The ethical ...

The PHG Foundation hosted an event in Westminster on 8 th December 2022 to showcase the research behind a new book published by Routledge: Making Genetics and Genomics Policy in Britain: From Personal ...

Though we all share common ancestors ranging from a few generations to hundreds of thousands of years, genealogies that relate all of us are often forgotten over time. A new McGill University-led ...

The historical context of modern human behaviour genetics and of this course itself is briefly described focussed on three core issues (i) how big do twin studies need to be, (ii) what is the effect ...

Research on the genetics of obesity dates to the early 1920s, with many of the initial findings indicating the complexity and multifaceted nature of obesity perfectly resonating with more modern ...

The diagnosis of a genetic disorder and test results have wide-ranging implications for patients and their families. 19 Genetic information can have a strong emotional impact, such as feelings of ...