What are the greatest unanswered questions of genetics?

Why does the human genome have so many "noncoding" (=junk in popular culture) regions? How can the genome explain our behaviors and non-physical phenotypes like personality? read more

Over the last 20 years, the incidence of asthma in the developed world, and of related disorders such as eczema, hay fever, and food allergies, has tripled. read more

It’s difficult to say, partly as it’s hard to know which questions are within our reach and partly because it’s impossible to say which questions are the “most important”. I personally think the greatest unanswered questions lie within the human brain. read more