The past three decades have witnessed an explosion in human genetics research, particularly research designed to identify genetic variants causing or increasing risk for disease. These efforts began ...

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...

Hands of a child learning about patterns of size and color with colorful wooden blocks. Source: myboys/Shutterstock Part of what makes us human is the need for our brains to search for meaning. Good ...