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“We want to know whether our future baby’s health is based on genes or the environment.” This is a concern shared by a lot of would-be parents for sure, and is the question posed to Dr. M. Elizabeth...
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On November 14, the Junior Faculty at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, together with Nature Genetics, hosted a workshop for early-career researchers about mentoring in the sciences. The goal of the...
View ArticleDouble-blind peer review
“Apaga La Luz Y Verás” by Blofeldcine – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons In this month’s editorial, Nature Genetics announces a new option available to authors at all...
View ArticleSex in Science
This is a guest blog post by Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini. Ele trained in Biochemistry (BSc) and Immunogenetics (PhD) in Manchester, UK, before undertaking a post doc and subsequently a Wellcome Trust...
View ArticleHighlighting genomes for DNA Day 2016
October 2015 cover “Histone butterflies” by Luisa Lente. Inspired by Salvador Dalí. Today is national DNA day, celebrating the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the publication of the...
View Article25 years of Nature Genetics
This April marks the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Nature Genetics, and I think it’s safe to say that the field of genetics has come quite a long way. In 1992, we were still nearly a decade...
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