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 ...

How Mendel started genetics by getting it mostly wrong A good scientific law, like the speed limit imposed by light, may solve an … ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a new way to interpret unsolved Mendelian diseases -- diseases inherited from either parent due to gene mutations in the developing egg or sperm -- through studying the ...

Mendelian heredity, as it came to be known, was instrumental in the rise of the new science of genetics, and today practically every high school biology class features charts showing how dominant ...