Padma Bhushan awardee Prof. P. Balaram explores the link between Mendelian genetics, Darwinian evolution, and chemistry at ...

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is a powerful tool in diagnosing Mendelian disorders, but the optimized sequencing depth for this ...

A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study of how these biological traits are inherited. A little over half of ...

A massive new study combining observational and genetic data overturns the long-held belief that light drinking protects the ...

An examination of research on heredity in the years between Mendel's scientific work and his multiple rediscovery (approximately 1850-1900) suggests that at the turn of the century the elucidation of ...

Low cholesterol can reduce the risk of dementia, a new University of Bristol-led study with more than a million participants ...

Losing sight is not just a physical experience — it reshapes the architecture of the inner world, Garrett Jones writes.

Even light drinking (under seven drinks a week) showed no protective effect in the largest combined study to date. Genetic ...

There is, it concludes, probably no safe level of drinking: dementia risk rises in direct proportion to alcohol consumption.