Genetics

Have we really exorcised eugenics from genetics?

Michael Cook | 28 May 2011

he linkage between genetics and eugenics is an oft-told story, but it bears repeating again and again. This is an idea hammered home in latest issue of Annals of Human Genetics.

Can an imaginary gene keep you behind bars?

Michael Cook | 04 February 2011

Perhaps, in New York

John Cleese on the God gene

Michael Cook | 23 December 2010

Scientific reductionism made, as you would expect, absurd

WikiLeaks: are Chinese spies stealing Iceland’s genetic database?

Jared Yee | 18 December 2010

WikiLeaks docs point at spies

Test for baby’s DNA in the womb

Michael Cook | 11 December 2010

Maternal blood reveals foetal DNA

In search of a gene for naïveté

Michael Cook | 10 December 2010

Scientists claim to have discovered a gene for infidelity

Celebration of human genome anniversary muted by slow progress

Michael Cook | 25 June 2010

Still not much progress for human health

A decade later, human genome yields little success for medicine

Jared Yee | 17 June 2010

Few cures result from genetic map

Free will an illusion, says noted US biologist

Michael Cook | 15 February 2010

Reform of criminal law will be needed