Genetics

March 2025

• Mar 22, 2025ExplainersGene Therapy: Revolutionizing Genetic Disease TreatmentGene therapy delivers functional DNA into cells to treat or cure genetic disease. From Jesse Gelsinger's death in 1999 to CRISPR-based cures for...17 MIN1.6k

February 2025

• Feb 24, 2025ConceptsUnderstanding Behavioral Genetics and Its InsightsBehavioral genetics explained: what twin and adoption studies really show about intelligence, personality, and mental health, and what...24 MIN1.2k
• Feb 11, 2025ConceptsNature vs. Nurture: What the Science Actually ShowsThe nature vs. nurture debate has been largely resolved - not by declaring a winner, but by showing the question was wrong. Behavioral genetics, twin studies, GWAS, and epigenetics have revealed how genes and environment interact in ways that make the dichotomy obsolete.19 MIN3.5k

August 2024

• Aug 6, 2024ExplainersMolecular Biology: Genetic Information Flow ExplainedMolecular biology explains how genetic information flows from DNA to RNA to protein. Explore the central dogma, CRISPR, PCR, gene regulation, and...13 MIN5.1k
• Aug 4, 2024ExplainersUnderstanding Genetics: DNA and Heredity BasicsA comprehensive guide to genetics and DNA: from Mendel's pea plant experiments and the discovery of the double helix to CRISPR gene editing and...19 MIN7.9k

June 2024

• Jun 22, 2024ExplainersHow Genetic Engineering Works: CRISPR and Gene Therapy ExplainedHow does CRISPR actually edit genes? Understand the science of genetic engineering, from restriction enzymes and recombinant DNA to CRISPR-Cas9,...8 MIN2.8k
• Jun 19, 2024ExplainersHow Epigenetics Functions: Gene Regulation and ExperienceHow epigenetics works: DNA methylation, histone modification, epigenetic clocks, and whether stress and trauma can be passed to future generations...14 MIN4.4k
• Jun 16, 2024ExplainersHow CRISPR Gene Editing Works: Revolutionizing BiologyHow does CRISPR gene editing work? From bacterial immune systems to Nobel Prizes, base editing, and the first approved CRISPR therapy for sickle...16 MIN1.3k
• Jun 11, 2024ExplainersHow Cancer Develops: The Biology of Uncontrolled GrowthCancer is not one disease but two hundred, united by a common logic: cells that break free from the constraints evolution built to stop them.15 MIN7.2k

April 2024

• Apr 26, 2024CultureWhat Is Race? Examining Its Social and Biological DimensionsRace is one of the most consequential categories in human societies, yet its biological basis is contested and its definitions vary across...21 MIN8.8k

February 2024

• Feb 16, 2024ConceptsUnderstanding Night Owls: The Biology of Sleep PatternsBeing a night owl is not laziness or a bad habit. Chronotype is biologically determined, varies enormously between individuals, and shifts...13 MIN7.6k
• Feb 1, 2024ConceptsWhat Is Personality? Science of Individual DifferencesWhat is personality and why do people differ? The science of the Big Five, heritability, MBTI critique, and whether personality can actually change.19 MIN9.3k

January 2024

• Jan 18, 2024ConceptsThe Complex Causes of Eating DisordersEating disorders are among the deadliest psychiatric conditions. Here is what the genetic, neurobiological, and psychological research actually...18 MIN2.7k

June 2022

• Jun 11, 2022ConceptsEvolutionary Biology: Concepts and Theories ExplainedEvolutionary biology explained: Darwin's theory of natural selection, the Modern Synthesis, population genetics, speciation, sexual selection,...15 MIN1.8k