Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...

Gametogenesis is a fundamental process that ensures the formation of gametes and the transmission of genetic information to subsequent generations. While sexual organisms utilize meiosis with crossing ...

Small plastic or metal bits at the end of shoelaces, known as aglets, prevent laces from unraveling and protect them from wear and tear. Similarly, chromosomes are capped by telomeres—specialized ...

Primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDs) are monogenic inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) and categorized into 10 groups. There are currently 555 IEIs caused by inherited defects in one or more ...