Edited by: ISBN: 978-0-8153-4509-1 Published by: Garland Science, 2015 Price:£22.95/$50.00 Introducing Genetics pleasantly surprises, not just by the pretty cover, but even more so by the thorough yet ...

Environmental factors can lead to heritable non-genetic changes in the mammalian germ line that affect behaviour in the offspring across several generations. These changes influence behaviours related ...

Scientists have presented new findings that challenge established concepts of genetic inheritance. They have demonstrated that somatic cells of the roundworm C. elegans influence heredity. Scientists ...

In 2015, biologists developed a breakthrough technology known as "active genetics," which results in parents transmitting a genetic trait to most of their offspring (instead of 50 percent receiving ...

Not all inheritance is genetic. Proteins, which can adopt different conformations, may offer another way for information to be passed between generations. The University of Oregon’s David Garcia and ...

Scientists have figured out how to modify CRISPR’s basic architecture to extend its reach beyond the genome and into what’s known as the epigenome – proteins and small molecules that latch onto DNA ...