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

The legacy of Neandertals in modern people has often been framed as a genetic gift for fighting infection. This time, the ...

A mouse study shows that about 7% of inherited DNA methylation patterns follow non-Mendelian rules, revealing unexpected ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

Mice show that DNA methylation tags can defy Mendel’s inheritance rules by appearing in offspring even when neither parent ...

In a groundbreaking UK first, eight healthy babies have been born using an IVF technique that includes DNA from three people—two parents and a female donor. The process, known as pronuclear transfer, ...

Science is rarely straightforward. Many times, scientists embark on a study looking for evidence for a particular hypothesis, and in the process, they come across something totally unexpected and ...

"How can you target the mutations you want to fix - and then leave the ones that help us?" ...

Understand the science behind Chinmayi Sripaada's viral 'bloodline' comment. Learn how mitochondrial DNA works vs. nuclear ...