Background and purpose During the years prior to the turn of the century, scientific and
medical attention for genetic disorders was mainly focused on understanding rare single …

Abby Lippman's geneticisation thesis, of the early 1990s, argued and anticipated that with
the rise of genetics, increasing areas of social and health related activities would come to be …

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment
of uncertainty, transition, and contestation. The postgenomic era has seen rapid shifts in …

Behavior genetics has always been a breeding ground for controversies. From the “criminal
chromosome” to the “gay gene,” claims about the influence of genes like these have led to …

Since the 1990s,'personalized medicine'has become a powerful language in which to
imagine significant change in medicine from a 'one size fits all'model to one that tailors …

Mice are used as model organisms across a wide range of fields in science today—but it is
far from obvious how studying a mouse in a maze can help us understand human problems …

A number of science and technology studies (STS) scholars have suggested that the
performativity of the 'forward-looking statement'is an important institutional element of …

Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than
changes in the DNA itself. The field is rapidly growing and being widely promoted, attracting …

Devised in the 1940s by the biologist CH Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a
metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it …

In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological
explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and …