June is a Field trip month at The Science Circle. This year we will open it with a tour given by Dr. Mary Anne Clark on her Genome Island.

Darwin proposed a theory of evolution focused on inherited elements. And these elements (which we now term "genes") existing in discreet locations in genomes are passed down from generation to generation freshly coding for the new individual. Or so we thought. In a small number of cases, science has found that the phenotype or expression […]