IT has long been suspected that the problem of the transmission from parent to offspring of somato-genic modifications (“acquired characters”) might be solved more readily by physiological experiments ...

Can 100-Year-Old Research Lead to the Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Inheritance? International Team to Reevaluate and Recreate Experiments from Vienna’s Legendary Biologische Versuchsanstalt, Led ...

Genetics has a greater impact on the microbiome than maternal birth environment, at least in mice, according to a new study. Vaginal birth, known to transfer microbiota to a newborn, failed to make a ...

Humans have been tinkering with evolution for millennia, breeding plants and animals to favor the traits we want, but new research might make the process a bit more direct. Biologists at the ...

ALMOST a quarter of a century has passed since I commenced to examine the inheritance of certain breeding- and colour-adaptations which I had obtained with amphibia and reptiles. I did. not expect, in ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed how DNA replicates, helping pave the way for a revolution in genetics ...

Long time readers of Dog O’Day may recall a previous article about the experiments in fox domestication. One notable experiment mentioned started in Siberia in 1959, the silver fox domestication ...

Washington, DC - July 26, 2019 - Genetics has a greater impact on the microbiome than maternal birth environment, at least in mice, according to a study published this week in Applied and ...