*Laws of Heredity* is an educational film that demonstrates how inheritance operates in statistically predictable ways, presenting the foundational insights first achieved by Gregor Mendel. Through ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

Genetic inheritance has been believed to be a mechanism of equality — each parent passes half of their DNA to the offspring. Recent studies have shown, though, that some of what offspring inherit is ...

Genetically speaking, we get what we get. But someday we might be able to program our genetic futures, and then it's a whole new ballgame. When I told my wife the title of your book, and that it was ...

Transthyretin protein is produced by the liver and helps circulate vitamin A and thyroxine through the body. This genetic variation causes misfolding of the transthyretin protein leading to hereditary ...