Brendan Maher
Amateur genetic sleuthing helped catch the Golden State Killer – but opens up ethical concerns about racial bias in genealogy
Barbara Rae-Venter’s account of her genetic sleuthing illustrates the power of technologies to bring criminals to justice. But should there ...
X and Y chromosomes locked in evolutionary battle of the sexes
New DNA sequencing data reinforce the notion that the X and Y chromosomes, which determine biological sex in mammals, are ...
Will whole-genome sequencing become the norm?
The first thing Debbie Jorde noticed about her newborn daughter was that her arms were bent at unnatural angles. She ...
Father searches daughter’s DNA to understand her condition
The following is an edited excerpt. Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is “a fire cracker”, “a tomboy” ...
