Discussing human diseases is a common way to engage middle and high school students in genetics. But a series of experiments suggests how teachers approach the discussion could either break down or ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Most middle-schoolers struggle to grasp the introductory concepts of genetics, a field of study considered crucial to advancing solutions to health problems and disease such as ...

*Laws of Heredity* is an educational film that demonstrates how inheritance operates in statistically predictable ways, presenting the foundational insights first achieved by Gregor Mendel. Through ...

Multifactorial diseases, such as coronary artery disease, can be as complex as their name suggests. How much can we hope to understand about diseases with such variation in inheritance? Aa Aa Aa ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

These activities introduce ideas about heredity, observing the differences and similarities in a population, and modeling how inheritance works. Campers can think about organisms as systems in which ...

A gene is a fundamental unit of heredity, consisting of a specific sequence of DNA that encodes the instructions for making a particular protein or set of proteins. Genes are passed down from parents ...

A cancer physician and stem-cell biologist at Columbia University, Siddhartha Mukherjee investigates the links between stem cells and cancerous blood diseases. In 2011, his book, Emperor of All ...