New research published in Nature Communications is being shared freely to help scientists, farmers and brewers ...

It may be DNA rather than a confession that helps catch Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper. "By sending it to this private lab, I think we will actually get answers much more quickly,” said CeCe Moore, a ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

An international team led by University of Manchester scientists has created the most detailed picture yet of how genetic differences shape the way the human eye works. The breakthrough could help ...

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Mice show that DNA methylation tags can defy Mendel’s inheritance rules by appearing in offspring even when neither parent ...

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 ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...

Researchers say epigenetic phase variation mechanism may explain microbiome resilience and variability and could guide the ...

The causes of male infertility can be hard to diagnose, with many tests failing to detect genetic defects. Sometimes, ...

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