Genetics is important to our understanding of selection for at least three reasons: first, although the concept of selection seems obvious, it was not until selection was linked to Mendelian genetics ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They ...

The scientist leaves behind a complicated legacy after making a slew of offensive remarks during the later part of his life.

Studying the ways that magenta and yellow flowers intermingle paints a vibrant picture of how the plants exchange genetic ...

This monumental scientific achievement occurred within a context of intense international collaboration, rapid technical ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, Ruth Ley and her colleagues demonstrated that behavior—in this case, how ...

Evidence that learned avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium can be transmitted to future generations in C. elegans is growing.

Whole genome sequencing in nearly 500,000 UK Biobank participants shows that observed rare and common variants now explain ...