Practical genetic counselling (2004) Edited by Peter S Harper Arnold, Hodder Headline Group, London, 6th Edition. ISBN 0340 81196 X. This recently published 6th edition of Practical Genetic ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey near ...

The lives of scientists can be almost as complicated as those of the organisms they study. One particular challenge relates to the old generalists versus specialists argument. The choice between the ...

No field of science has changed more, or changed the world more, in the last 50 years than genetics – the study of how our physical and behavioural traits are inherited. These experiments illuminated ...