Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

From Mendel’s pea plants to the double helix, genetics reveals the blueprint of life. Understanding DNA, genes, and inheritance explains why we look, function, and respond the way we do. Whether it’s ...

Recent studies are challenging the long-dominant Mendelian view of inheritance, highlighting the need to incorporate polygenic and quantitative models into genetics research and education. Evidence ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

Genetics can play a role in a person's odds for Alzheimer's disease, and new research suggests differences in that risk are based on which parent had the illness. In a study of 4,400 people still ...

Are you mostly a product of the genes you inherit or your experiences in life? This question intrigues many people, including addiction researchers. In this post, I provide an overview of key research ...

When I arrived in Poland, my goal was clear, to better understand the health and genetic conditions affecting the Karaite ...