Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

This 24 hour whiskey steak experiment pushed flavor in a different direction. I explain how alcohol penetration works and why it does not soak as deeply as many people think. We dried the steak ...

A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when ...

A genetics‑guided drug, compound 6, targets CARD9 to subtly calm gut inflammation in Crohn’s disease, pointing to safer, ...

For blackberry breeders, white and pink flowers on blackberry plants are more than something to admire; they are a key early ...

It's very early stage research, tried in only a few dozen people so far. But gene-editing approaches being developed by two ...

Japanese scientists have decoded the genetic mechanisms behind the proliferation of radioactive pig-boar hybrids in Fukushima's abandoned evacuation zone. Following the 2011 nuclear accident, escaped ...

Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held ...

Public debate about Australia's intergenerational wealth transfer remains stubbornly incomplete. It focuses obsessively on housing — who owns it, who cannot afford it, and who will inherit it — while ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...

You can curl, flip, bend, and even shape it into a wiggly form. Your tongue can act like a gymnast, even if your parents can't pull off the same stunts. Each ...