In 2015, biologists developed a breakthrough technology known as "active genetics," which results in parents transmitting a genetic trait to most of their offspring (instead of 50 percent receiving ...

One important piece of information about the human Mendelian disorders is the mode of inheritance. Recent studies of human genetic diseases on a large scale have provided many novel insights into the ...

Recent evidence increasingly supports the idea that certain ancestral life experiences acquired in the environment can be inherited by offspring; paternally acquired characteristics can be encoded in ...

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 ...

The decision to vote is partly genetic. Researchers have now identify a link between two specific genes and political participation. They show that individuals with a variant of the MAOA gene are ...

Joselin Linder carries a rare mutation in her genes that is unique to the Linder family. The mutation causes a disease that killed her father in middle age and four other members of her family. In her ...