A newly cloned gene in corn will help explain how unusual interactions between a parent's genes can have lasting effects in future generations. The finding has implications for breeding better crop ...

A study of spotted mice suggests that as well as contributing their usual cargoes of DNA, mammalian sperm and eggs might also trasmit heritable genetic information in the form of RNA. Mendel's laws of ...

Anyone can access all the research papers in medicine and biology via the free search engine PubMed. Do a PubMed search for “cancer” and you will get links to 4.97 million papers, with the most recent ...