For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

Genetics influences who of us are more likely to experience a relationship breakdown, and who are more likely to remain ...

A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called “selfish ...

A new statistical framework developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins ...

For millennia, evolution has intrigued many great thinkers, prompting questions about how new traits emerge as species adapt over time. Then, attention shifted to natural selection and the inheritance ...

If longevity is written into your DNA, do your daily habits really matter? For decades, scientists believed that lifestyle and environment did most of the heavy lifting when it came to determining a ...

Opus Genetics (NASDAQ:IRD) is advancing a portfolio of gene therapies for inherited retinal diseases, with two programs ...