Discover interesting facts about how traits are passed down over generations through DNA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. What ...

Towards the end of the Second World War, something unprecedented happened in modern Europe: a famine. Operation Market Garden, the Allies’ attempt to push across the Rhine in September 1944, had ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. I have a problem. Look, I've got DNA in my nose cells and I've got DNA in my belly cells, and it's the ...

To understand how cells work, biologists like to take them apart. By removing genes from cells in diverse combinations, researchers have now uncovered how different genes work together to keep cells ...

Studies on genetic links to health and disease have received a £53m boost from the Medical Research Council (MRC). The funds will support work at the MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of ...

Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes. 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 ...