Everyone's on the human microbiome story these days -- the bacteria in our gut that make us fat, thin, sick, well -- but a new paper i...

You can never tell what's been funded in the name of hard-core, serious-minded, fundamental paradigm-shifting, transformative science.  ...

Henry Louis Gates, who has done so much to interest people in DNA-based ancestry testing, tells the story of his own first ancestry report. ...

Ken and I are just back from a wonderful few days in Rhode Island.  Holly invited Ken to speak in the University of Rhode Island biology sem...

Do you remember how much fresh fruit you ate last year?  Or, ok, in the last three months?  Or even last week?  What about differentiating b...

On Tuesday we posted about the arrival of tuba player, basketball aficionado, and sometime geneticist Joe Terwilliger in North Korea, to hel...

Big Data More Big Data is on the horizon -- a new estimate of the number of viruses in known mammal species harbor is generating excitement...