It's a crisp fall day in Northville, Mich., a small suburb of Ann Arbor, and Kirk Maxey, a soft-spoken, graying baby boomer with a classic square jaw, is watching his 12-year-old son chase a soccer ...

For decades, high school teachers used Gregor Mendel and his pea plants to teach kids in ninth grade on up the fundamentals of genetics. Today’s kids don’t care beans about those peas. They want to ...

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 ...

To Michael D.P. Boyle, it’s an ideal arrangement: A group of professors who teach genetics at liberal-arts colleges band together and bundle genome-sequencing requests to fit into one or two runs on a ...

A month before her daughter would have turned 3, Sally Aldrich wrote a note to her and shared it on a social media page she created for the child who, at 9 months old, died in her arms at a Virginia ...