Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

How much of our lifespan is written in our genes, and how much is sitting on our plates? A new analysis suggests that while ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

I recently underwent genetic testing to see if I had any mutations that could be associated with an increased cancer risk. When I received my genetic testing kit in the mail, I quickly opened the ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

Neurofibromatosis type 2 is caused by a change in the NF2 gene located on chromosome 22. This gene encodes a protein known as merlin. Mutations in the NF2 gene disrupt the function of merlin, which is ...

Not all inheritance is genetic. Proteins, which can adopt different conformations, may offer another way for information to be passed between generations. The University of Oregon’s David Garcia and ...

It’s remarkable that between them, Darwin and Mendel got most of evolution and inheritance right back in the mid-19th century. The two theories of evolution and inheritance were not combined until the ...