Epigenetic memory is one of the strangest and most consequential features of the genome. Across generations, cells and even ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

Traits pass from parents to offspring through DNA, or so the standard picture of heredity goes. In tiny worms, a new study found an exception that lasted for generations.

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

A new study from EMBL Rome shows how embryos precisely coordinate gene activity during early development. The research is ...

Scientists use tools like Punnett squares to predict how traits are passed from parents to offspring. Features like freckles and eye color are examples of these traits. Learn how scientists use plant ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Researchers have identified inherited genetic variants that may predict the loss of one copy of a woman's two X chromosomes as she ages, a phenomenon known as mosaic loss of chromosome X, or mLOX.

Around 7,000 years ago, the genetic diversity of human males suddenly dropped across parts of Africa, Europe,and Asia.