The Dog Zombie

Ah, the beloved Tame Fox Project ! I worked in a lab that focused on these foxes for four years, during my PhD in Kukekova Lab at the Unive...

I’ve been cogitating recently on the statement I’ve seen in a few places that “it makes sense to show a dog in conformation shows before ...

Today I’m working on revisions for my DNA class at IAABC , which starts Monday, April 24. This will be the second time I’ve offered this cla...

I've been doing a lot of bench work in the laboratory lately. This involves filling the tiny little wells on a plate with my ingredients...

The other morning I was talking to my husband in bed in an attempt to help him wake up. Me: So I ran into our friend who walks those three...

Some facts: Molecules of DNA are double-stranded, each strand a perfect complementary copy of the other. Humans have 23 pairs of chromoso...

The other day I was re-reading the original dog genome paper, as you do. This is the paper published in 2005 to accompany the release of the...

Note: there is an interview with me at the Huffington Post about this story. Dog breeds are amazing creations. I can own a series of Gol...

The Nature versus Nurture debate is over: we no longer ask if genetics governs personality or if environment does. They work together, and i...