For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

As more patients speak up about the frustrations of trial-and-error mental health medication treatment, important questions are emerging about what personalized care really looks like and how genetic ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

From dwarfism to overgrowth, scientists unravel the complex genetic blueprint that determines how tall—or short—we become. Review: The genetic basis of human height. Image Credit: XiXinXing / ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — According to researchers at UC San Diego, coffee habits, whether in excess or scarcity, could be partially linked to genetics. To test this theory, the researchers examined ...