25 years of Nature Genetics
Brooke LaFlamme
This April marks the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Nature Genetics, and I think it’s safe to say that the field of genetics has come quite a long way. In 1992, we were still nearly a decade away from the draft human genome sequence, “omics” was not yet a word in common usage, and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing wasn’t even a pipe dream.
Most of the content in our current issue would have possibly seemed like far-fetched science fiction to geneticists in 1992. Take for instance the...