Discussing human diseases is a common way to engage middle and high school students in genetics. But a series of experiments suggests how teachers approach the discussion could either break down or ...

Lima pathologist Dr. Joseph Sreenan shows an eighth grade class from Heir Force Academy a cancerous colon specimen. The students visited the Mercy Health Graduate Medical Education Center on Tuesday ...

To paraphrase Milo Minderbinder, the immortal character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch 22, “I lose money on every sale; it's the volume that keeps me in business.” There's a lesson for our field in ...

In October 2018, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration had proposed a new legal definition of sex. “Sex means a person’s status as male or female based on immutable biological ...

Is it true that if you plant hot peppers on the same row as sweet peppers, the sweet pepper plants will cross with the hot peppers and become hot? — William I get variations on this question all the ...

FAIRFIELD -- Wearing tight-fitting latex gloves and surrounded by pipettors, agarose gel and electrophoresis apparatus, it was clear a group of 10th grade honors biology students from Central High ...

A quick genetics lesson is probably in order here. Every cell in a person’s body contains their genetic code, or DNA, which typically consists of 23 pairs of chromosomes — with one chromosome in each ...