Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

For decades, the “classical view” of genetics has hewn closely to the original work of Austro-Hungarian biologist Gregor ...

Individuals who carry common genetic variants associated with autism tend to have lower density in the brain’s microscopic ...

A major twin-family study from Germany has found that narcissistic traits are passed down entirely through genetic inheritance, challenging long-standing beliefs that parenting styles are a key driver ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution generated scientific debate and discussion not only in Darwin's own time, but for decades afterward. In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the until the ...

Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

Are you mostly a product of the genes you inherit or your experiences in life? This question intrigues many people, including addiction researchers. In this post, I provide an overview of key research ...