A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

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How we got from Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to modern genetics Philosopher Yafeng Shan explains how today's understanding of inheritance emerged from a muddle of ideas ...

DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

In nature, gene inheritance typically follows Mendel's laws, which provide an equal chance for alleles to pass on to the next generation—a cornerstone of Darwinian natural selection.

Nevertheless, in more than two-thirds of cases, the underlying genetic changes in children who undergo sequencing are unknown. Researchers everywhere are looking to new methods to analyze exome ...

Mendel had started to understand the relationship between the combination of genes (known as the genotype) and the physical manifestation of those genes (known as the phenotype).

Learning how nature keeps people healthy when their genes are broken might lead to cures or prevention, say researchers studying resilience.