Articles related to "Human Genetics"

Simple steps to use your genetics to get fit and improve nutrition.

A genetic test for dyslexia could be available soon. This article looks briefly at the news from genetics and the possible impact of such a test on education.

Differences in writing for the lay person versus technical writing for scientists are clear in a comparison of two articles about genetics and the human genome project.

Scientists think they have discovered a connection between Vitamin D and Alzheimer's. People with low levels of the vitamin might be more likely to get the disease.

Although formed as a non-profit organization in 1949, the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) has played an important role in bioethics.

It's much easier to understand genetics and heredity if you examine actual examples of dominant and recessive phenotypes that you possess.

Hair color is a complex interplay of genetic factors, with more than one gene involved in determining exactly what shade will emerge: black, brown, blonde or red.

DNA Day remembers both the identification of DNA's chemical structure in 1953, and the work of the Human Genome Project, which was completed in 2003.

The onset of menopause is associated with various health risks. Scientists are now beginning to reveal the genes that determine when menopause might occur.

Misunderstood areas in genetics include the eye color phenotype, the genetics of identical twins, cloning, and the offspring of first cousins.

Notorious Nazi Murderer "The Angel of Death" Commits Unspeakable Atrocities at Auschwitz and Flees to South America to Freedom and a New Life!

Australian biologists are studying the life cycles of a group of wild echidnas to develop better ways of breeding these elusive and endangered monotremes in captivity.

Anthony D. Barnosky explains that climate change is changing nature fundamentally and that we are headed toward an extinction phase that will include our species.

What is the relationship between genes, chromosomes and DNA? Genotypes, phenotypes and alleles? Read on to learn how inheritance works.

In his book, author Wes Nisker is among many writers who have questioned the purpose of our species and the role of religion.

Hop on a bus at Tennessee's American Museum of Science and Energy and travel back to WW II, to the Cold War, and on to today's world-class sub-atomic research facilities.

A new policy will allow the U.S. national parks to share in the profits of private companies whose scientific breakthroughs are based on organisms harvested there.