Children with obese parents are more likely to be obese themselves – but their mothers’ genes appear to be particularly important in determining their weight, a new study has found. Obesity is thought ...

Once again, scientists have exerted a great deal of time and effort to prove something you’ve probably noticed on your own: Much like shakable body parts, you may have gotten your tendency to be thin ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

The effect of a gene can vary greatly — and sometimes be the complete opposite — depending on whether it is inherited from the mother or the father. Some genetic variants can, for instance, increase a ...

A child’s educational success depends on the genes that they have inherited from their parents, as well as the genes they haven't, according to our new study, now published in the American Journal of ...

SALUDA—Fifth-grade students in Ginger Rackley’s class at Saluda Elementary School recently transformed their science studies ...

Research shows that the biological parents' genes affect the child's insulin function and capacity to regulate blood sugar levels and blood lipids in different ways. Such knowledge may be used to to ...

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