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

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Texas A&M University have documented at least 522 autosomal sites where DNA methylation patterns pass from parent to offspring without following Mendel’s ...

The early decades of the twentieth century were a crucial period for genetics. By 1900, Mendel’s findings had been rediscovered but the physical nature of hereditary remained unclear until 1902–1904, ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to offspring by fixed genetic rules. But a new mouse study suggests that ...