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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...

Genetics and heredity are complex subjects, especially for children. It's not easy to explain to youngsters what DNA is, what it's used for, or the principles of recessive and dominant genes. As part ...

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 ...

From eye color to dimples, the traits that make us unique are rooted in the fascinating science of genetics. Our genes, inherited from both parents, interact in complex ways to determine our physical ...