A book review of Carl Zimmer's massive new book “She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity.”

Researchers working with the resilience project are using genetics to help them find individuals who are resilient to disease, as a way to discover new treatments and cures for disease.

“Sometimes I feel like Sir James Murray must have felt while he was grubbing away at writing the Oxford English Dictionary,” the Washington Post once quoted Victor McKusick as saying....