In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

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For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

After the advent of gene-editing technology, if it can lead to disease treatment, the question naturally moves to the next ...

Kindness has a strange way of turning ordinary people into something unforgettable—especially when no one expects it. These 12 moments show how compassion between strangers sparked courage, changed ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

Study could help reveal why some mental health disorders vary between men and women — but it's not clear whether the differences are due to sex or gender.

The debate between natural training and steroid use has shaped fitness culture for decades. This comparison examines real-world strength outcomes, training limits, and recovery differences between the ...