IT has long been suspected that the problem of the transmission from parent to offspring of somato-genic modifications (“acquired characters”) might be solved more readily by physiological experiments ...

Can 100-Year-Old Research Lead to the Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Inheritance? International Team to Reevaluate and Recreate Experiments from Vienna’s Legendary Biologische Versuchsanstalt, Led ...

Genetics has a greater impact on the microbiome than maternal birth environment, at least in mice, according to a new study. Vaginal birth, known to transfer microbiota to a newborn, failed to make a ...

Last year, Chinese scientist He Jiankui caused tremendous controversy in the scientific world by conducting a gene-editing experiment using CRISPR technology on human embryos that were later born.

ALMOST a quarter of a century has passed since I commenced to examine the inheritance of certain breeding- and colour-adaptations which I had obtained with amphibia and reptiles. I did. not expect, in ...

At an international genetics conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday, He Jiankui, Ph.D., the Chinese scientist who claimed to have created the world’s first genetically modified “designer babies,” both ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

Washington, DC - July 26, 2019 - Genetics has a greater impact on the microbiome than maternal birth environment, at least in mice, according to a study published this week in Applied and ...