Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Genetic factors primarily explain the link between parental and childhood BMI, with maternal obesity impacting birth weight ...

A historic new study reveals how OpenAI’s o3 model helped Boston Children’s Hospital diagnose patients with rare genetic ...

The ISC Board has made class 12th syllabus available for the academic year 2026-27. In this article we have explained the ...

Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...

For people living with genetic disorders such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia, stigma can be as damaging as the illness itself. Experts say greater awareness, genetic counselling, and open ...

Why humans have a philtrum, the groove above your lip, explained by an evolutionary biologist — from embryonic face-building ...

India carries a significant share of the global burden of sickle cell anaemia with millions of people either affected by SCD ...

​​When both parents carry SCT, each child has a 50% chance of inheriting the trait and a 25% chance of developing the disease. This is why genetic counselling must be recognized as an integral part of ...

A gene can vanish, and life can go on. That is one of the most striking lessons from a sweeping new analysis of 173,303 ...

People living in individualistic societies (such as the United States), where individual success is an important life goal, ...

The EU has relaxed its rules on gene-editing. Now, only some gene-edited crops are regulated by the stringent GMO directive.