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 ...

Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

Every year, millions of newborns undergo routine heel-prick screening, a simple test that can mean the difference between a healthy life and catastrophic disability. Now, breakthroughs in ...

A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

From Mendel’s pea plants to today’s genome mapping, our understanding of genetics has transformed how we see heredity, traits, and evolution. DNA’s code, once mysterious, now reveals a complex ...

The field of plant epigenetics is increasingly recognized for its crucial role in mediating plant responses to diverse environmental stressors intensified ...

Gregor Mendel’s studies of inheritance patterns in pea plants helped shape researchers’ understanding of single-gene diseases, which can run in families. Some of the diseases that follow a Mendelian ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to untangle the genetic complexity of crops with multiple chromosome sets. Now, researchers have unveiled a cost-effective sequencing method, dpMIG-seq, that ...