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Bring Us Your Genes

A Viking scientist’s quest to conquer disease

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Spark of Science: Pardis Sabeti

The computational geneticist explains why she chose research over…

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Illustration of a DNA helix untwisting and fading into cartoons of a car, shirt, pie, and a flower.

The Man Who Kicked Off the Biotech Revolution

The $325 billion biotech industry began with the…

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From a Pink Squiggle to the Human Genome Project

This Yellowstone bacterium sparked PCR, one of the…

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The Menu Says ‘Snapper.’ Really?

DNA barcodes could keep restaurants honest

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Creating Life As We Don’t Know It

Scientists are changing the rules for how DNA works

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The Acquired Tastes of Foodies and Cockroaches

How genes influence the animal palate

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Can Science Breed the Next Secretariat?

How a ‘speed gene’ test is stirring up horse racing and…

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Your DNA Is Nothing Special

It’s time to relax about genetic testing

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Half Male, Half Female, Total Animal

Mixed-sex animals teach us about our own multifarious nature