Hacking Your DNA
Keeping track of what we reveal about ourselves each day—through email and text messages, Amazon purchases and Facebook “likes”—is hard enough. Imagine a future when Big Data has access not…
Genomes
Study Confirms a Gene Linked to Asperger Syndrome and Empathy.
A study to be published later this month in the journal Molecular Autism confirms previous research that people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are more likely to carry specific variations in a particular…
Evolution of New Species Requires Few Genetic Changes
Only a few genetic changes are needed to spur the evolution of new species — even if the original populations are still in contact and exchanging genes. Once started, however,…