Human Genome

Humans Still Evolving As Brain Shrinks

LiveScience | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living


Evolution in humans is commonly thought to have essentially stopped in recent times. But there are plenty of examples that the human race is still evo...

Genes at the Crossroads

Deepak Chopra | Posted 07.27.2008 | Living


Deepak Chopra

Human behavior isn't complex the way a game of chess is, or the way the wiring is in a computer, for example. Human traits cannot be ascribed to one gene or even a large group.

California's Misguided War on Self-Knowledge

Adam Hanft | Posted 07.05.2008 | Living


Adam Hanft

California is trying to stop companies from marketing genetic testing to state residents. But accurate genetic understanding could have enormously beneficial implications for individuals.

The Next Big Thing?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

There are several huge areas of exponential growth on the horizon that, for wise investors, just might represent the next great wave of stupid money.

Decode Your DNA For $1,000

Wired | Thomas Goetz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


At the age of 65, my grandfather the manager of a leather tannery in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, suffered a severe heart attack. He had chest pains and wa...

'Powerful New Strategy' Offers New Hope Of Linking Genes To Specific Diseases

MSNBC | Jeneen Interlandi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


Sifting through the 25,000 genes that make up the human genome to find the causes of disease may take a lot less time now, thanks to a new approach de...