The prostate is the single organ most frequently afflicted by cancer in men. Prostate cancer affects approximately 4 million ...

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

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

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 ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel's pea plants: traits pass from parent to offspring by fixed genetic rules. But a new mouse study suggests that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genetic information in the DNA and modifications, such as DNA methylation, define the epigenetic landscape and phenotype and show ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

Our bodily systems are rife with mutations. In fact, your DNA is mutating right now. These errors, and attempts to repair them, are a key to understanding immune function, aging, and even how heart ...

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy, also called Berger disease, is a rare autoimmune kidney disease. It is also a leading cause of kidney failure. Most cases are sporadic, and scientists do not know ...

America’s adult children say they are ready to manage that inheritance now. Their parents might disagree. A report from Fidelity Investments sheds new light on an estate-planning generation gap. Aging ...

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 ...