Putting a man on the moon was a pretty big deal. Ditto for splitting the atom. But in the eyes of biologists, both of these scientific milestones pale in comparison to a more recent landmark: the sequencing of the human genome. Scientists first produced a complete map of the genome (the technical term for all […]
DNA
Next of Kin
It turns out I have a lot more in common with a banana than I first thought. No, I don’t have yellow skin. I don’t bruise easily. And nobody waits until I am over-ripe to bake me into delicious bread. But under my skin, inside it even, I share one very important thing with bananas: […]
