Over the past few decades, growing evidence has challenged the belief that inheritance is governed solely by DNA sequences.

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have uncovered how to potentially control harmful insect populations by studying a "selfish gene" that ...

New research is shining a light on one of genetics' enduring puzzles—how the workings of the so-called "selfish gene" could ...

Genetics is fiendishly complex. We know this from decades of molecular biology, from the resulting studies on the sequencing and analysis of genomes and from our increasing knowledge of how genes ...