Is ethnocentrism wrong? It is certainly an ineffective way of getting people to like you or to respect you. It is an effective way of getting people to fear and resent you. If science adopts such a ...

It's been used to define and separate people for millennia. But the concept of race is not grounded in genetics. The four letters of the genetic code—A, C, G, and T—are projected onto Ryan ...

Not everything inside us is, strictly speaking, us. The closer we look at the genome, the more we appreciate the role of small RNAs in what we call epigenetic inheritance. That's when traits get ...

Jukka Koskela, a senior researcher at the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine, studies the complex genetics of various diseases, including rare diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis. Koskela began ...