Jun 28 2025SCIENCE
Numbers and Genes: How Math is Changing Our Understanding of DNA
People often think of genetics as just about DNA, but math plays a huge role too. Over the last few decades, new math ideas have helped scientists understand our genes better. These advances are not just cool; they are changing how we study genes, evolution, and even crime scenes. One big area is figuring out family trees using DNA. In the 1980s, scientists started ...
reading time about 1 minute