When scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen set out to study how traits pass from one generation to ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

Gut microbes are essential partners that help digest food, produce vitamins and train the immune system. They can also pass ...

Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report. Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...