The link between parents' body mass index (BMI) and their children's BMI in childhood is driven largely by genetic ...

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 ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

Scientists found that some inherited traits can bypass the traditional rules of genetics, revealing a surprising new layer of ...

From chromosomal anomalies to subtle molecular marks on sperm, hidden biological factors can silently erode fertility even ...

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 ...