Genomics, gene editing, CRISPR, heritability, and beyond.
Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the long argument about what heredity actually is.
Browse this topic →CRISPR, polygenic prediction, and what we can do now that machines can read at scale.
Browse this topic →A one-essay synthesis of Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioral Biology lectures, framed for the genetically curious. What heritability actuall…
In 2020, DeepMind's AlphaFold predicted protein structures with atomic-level accuracy — solving a problem that had defeated structural biol…
Inside every cell sits two metres of DNA coiled into a space six micrometres across. How the double helix works, why complementary base pai…
DNA stores the instructions but never leaves the nucleus. RNA carries the working copy. How transcription turns a gene into messenger RNA, …
Chromosomes are not merely storage — the way DNA is packaged controls which genes are active. Five levels of compaction from double helix t…
Before DNA was discovered, Gregor Mendel deduced the rules of inheritance from pea counts. What alleles are, why some are dominant and othe…
Sex is determined at fertilisation by a single genetic difference: whether the fertilising sperm carries an X or a Y. Every egg carries X —…