India, March 17 -- Selfish chromosomes bias genetic inheritance by manipulating the overdrive (Ovd) gene, a natural sperm quality control checkpoint.

Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery—how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance. The researchers found that ...

Although schwannomatosis is a genetic condition, the inheritance patterns for this disorder are complex and much less clear than for both NF1 and NF2. Some cases of schwannomatosis are familial, with ...

A new study of German twins suggests that the strong connection between a young adult's cognitive ability and their future ...

Dear Readers: For most people, finding out that they have come into an inheritance is a positive experience. Not so when that inheritance is early onset familial Alzheimer's disease (eFAD). This type ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...