Scientists have presented new findings that challenge established concepts of genetic inheritance. They have demonstrated that somatic cells of the roundworm C. elegans influence heredity. Scientists ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

Do you have your mom's button nose? Did your dad pass on the curse of sneezing in bright sunlight? And where did your baby's red, curly hair come from when there hasn't been a redhead in your family ...

Genetics is fiendishly complex. We know this from decades of molecular biology, from the resulting studies on the sequencing and analysis of genomes and from our increasing knowledge of how genes ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey near ...

More money doesn’t always equal more happiness. And now we have the research to prove it. In a 2018 study, a group of psychologists at Purdue University looked at correlations between how people feel ...