Whitney Maxwell, MS, CGC, stands at the helm of the Inherited Cancer Research Shared Resource at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, overseeing a dynamic team of genetic counselors, ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers than our primate cousins. The change affects a protein used by immune cells ...

A study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical for ...

The first fifty years of Mendelism. The introduction of Mendelism into human genetics / Milo Keynes. Galton's theory of ancestral inheritance / Michael Bulmer. The reception of Mendelism by the ...

At 4 years old, Charis Eng was captivated by her uncle’s career as a physician—an early fascination that wound up shaping her future. By age 16, she had already enrolled at the University of Chicago, ...