W e write in MT mainly about genetics and how it is used, misused, perceived, and applied these days.  That has been our own profession, and...

H ere is the third of a four-part series of posts by Tristan Cofer, a graduate student in chemical ecology here at Penn State.  He has been ...

H ere is a thoughtful and timely quote: ". . . . as no single disease can be fully understood in a living person; for every living pe...

T he funding mantra of genomewide mapping is that common variants cause common disease (CV-CD).  This was convenient for HapMap and other as...

S o the slogan du jour, All Of Us , is the name of a 1.4 billion dollar initiative being launched today by NIH Director Francis Collins.  Th...

The gene for ...... (Monty  Python) H ere's a link to a famous John Cleese (of Monty Python fame) sketch on gene mapping.  We ask y...

Drug resistant malaria has emerged in Southeast Asia several times in history and subsequently spread globally. When there are no other anti...