This morning, Ed Yong published an article that takes on issues that we at the  The Mermaid's Tale  care very deeply about. Link to a...

Recall that we ordered DNA testing kits for our mutts. First we made  predictions , then we revealed the  results . Today I want to tell a...

Yesterday we made the predictions  of the breed signatures we'd find in our dogs' DNA. If you didn't already, please conside...

[Click here to skip to  Part 2 and Part 3 ] You might remember Murphy and Elroy from the time we used science  to solve the book-eating m...

Thanks to my university's support of my new anthropology teaching initiative--using 23andMe as part of the curriculum--and thanks t...

March 15, 1993.  Oviedo, FL - A sophomore at OHS who injured the soft tissue in her knee in a freak accident while warming up for the 4 x 10...

It's just the way it is now. This headline. This story. (click to read/hear) As Genetic Sequencing Spreads,   Excitement, Worri...