In theory, precision medicine is a relatively straightforward concept. Clinicians use advanced techniques like genomic sequencing to identify disease-related biomarkers and develop a personalized ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and ...

Is our cancer the result of nature or nurture? Are we the victims of faulty DNA over which we have no control? Or of lifestyle and environmental factors that we can change? Or is there a third option?

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

Genome sequencing has been used to determine how much genes influence human characteristics including height and weight, and susceptibility to diseases like Type 2 diabetes, in a study co-led by ...

(Listen to this post, or right-click to download mp3.) Sometimes asking the wrong question will lead you down a dead-end path. A road to nowhere. And, until you reverse direction, back up, and ask the ...

Richard Overy is an accomplished British historian of World War II. His “Why War?” is a brisk and wide-ranging survey of the academic literature since Einstein wrote to Freud. Mr. Overy explains our ...