The Dog Zombie

Dog parks can be valuable ways to exercise and socialize your dog. They can also be dangerous places where dogs can get hurt. And so we ask ...

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

One of my students in the online genetics class I’m teaching commented to me that it was a little sad that we were marketing the class as...

We don’t actually know how behavior medications work. We know how they change the operations of cells — for example, we know facts like “t...

A week or so ago I encountered a letter to the editor in our local newspaper that made me peevish. Its author opined that chickens have b...

I’m writing a peer-reviewed article right now. I can almost guarantee it’s something pretty much none of you will be interested in (it is no...

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...