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Genetics

The science of heredity and DNA — how traits are encoded, expressed, and passed on.

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Books
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The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee

An intimate history of genetics — from Mendel to CRISPR. The best overview of the field in one book.

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People
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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Oncologist at Columbia who won the 2011 Pulitzer for The Emperor of All Maladies, the biography of cancer. The Gene (2016) extended the project to heredity itself — what we now know and what genome editing forces us to decide.

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Institutions
Institution

ENCODE Project

The world's largest open dataset mapping functional elements in the human genome.

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Tools & media
Tool

23andMe Research

Participatory genetics research. Millions of people contributing to understanding human variation.

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We are survival machines — robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. — Richard Dawkins — The Selfish Gene