One of the strangest dramas in the history of science came to an end last week. Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, dictator of Soviet geneticists and symbol of Stalin’s attitude toward science, was kicked out ...

Hampton Lawrence Carson : interviews toward an intellectual history; list of publications from 1934 to 1989 / Wyatt W. Anderson, Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro, and Luther Val Giddings -- Founder effects and ...

People who enroll in genetic studies are genetically predisposed to do so. According to the Catalogue of Bias, ascertainment bias occurs when a sample being studied is not representative of the target ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who carry disease-causing genes experience no symptoms. Every biology student ...