Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Someone asked “What is a genetics fact that not a lot of people know?” and people detailed their best bits of info.

Santhosh Girirajan receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, ...

The genetic bases of the seven pairs of contrasting traits in the garden pea that were described by the ‘father of genetics’, Gregor Mendel, have long puzzled scientists. The discovery of the genetic ...

New research finds that retinal diseases thought to map one-to-one to genetic mutations are more complicated than that.