A new study from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University suggests that the ...

A mouse study in Frontiers in Nutrition found that parental sucralose and stevia intake altered gut microbiota, short-chain ...

Males are not generally known as the caregivers of their species. It’s estimated that fewer than 5% of fathers raise their own offspring, and many of those that do not do any 'child-rearing' are ...

A short period of heat stress changed genes in fruit flies, and these changes lasted for generations. Some offspring even ...

It did not take long after the discovery of X-rays in the 1890s for scientists to begin exploring the harmful effects of ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

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