Epigenetics is the science of how your lifestyle, environment, and even emotions can alter your gene activity without ...

A research team at the University of California, Davis, has shown that cabernet sauvignon vines carry stable epigenetic ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. The paternal preconception environment has ...

Can 100-Year-Old Research Lead to the Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Inheritance? International Team to Reevaluate and Recreate Experiments from Vienna’s Legendary Biologische Versuchsanstalt, Led ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

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 ...

Cells, like the organisms they are a part of, are trying to balance between staying the same and making the kind of changes that might save a life or increase fitness. At the cellular level, pieces of ...