Genomics

Genes play a refreshingly limited role in Carl Zimmer’s new book about heredity.

Why do some genes get more active when life ends?

Stanford bioengineer Drew Endy doesn’t mind bringing dragons to life. What really scares him are humans. by David Ewing Duncan

Jargon from the pre-genomics era blinds us to new possibilities.

If you’ve been waiting to get your genome sequenced, will a virtual token really make you change your mind?

Forget editing genes. This guy wants to write brand-new ones. by Steven Kotler

Racing against his own genetic disorder, Onno Faber is giving people with rare diseases the tools to make medicine work for them.

A trailblazing genetic scan could bring the tools of precision medicine to a woefully understudied field.

Maverick scientists, a blissful free diver, and (of course) sex and drugs lit up our top articles of the year.

From sleepless startups to huge sequencing centers, genomics is booming in China. Will other countries get left behind?

Gregory Stock is ready for cloning, gene editing, and conscious AI. But first he’s trying to get you better health care.

Leroy Hood, pioneer of systems biology, is trying to upend medicine with a service that tests everything about you. by David Ewing Duncan

A handy chart for sorting out many of the options in DNA analysis.

The secrets in your genes may be worth even more to researchers than they are to you.

Hit with a rare disease, Onno Faber formed a startup to hack it — and he’s taking on conventional medicine in the process.