You learn your mother’s laugh before you learn to walk. You borrow her eye shape, her nervous energy, her way of running late for everything but always arriving with something useful. Some of that is ...

Behavioral similarities between parents and their offspring are less marked than is often suggested, a new study shows. People are only slightly more likely to share personality traits with their ...

The human genome may have been sequenced, but we are still learning about how it works. One of the features of the genome scientists are still deciphering is epigenetics, which refers to the various ...

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 ...

It has long been known that environmental conditions can shape how traits are inherited, a phenomenon known as transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. However, the molecular signals responsible for ...

Forget nature versus nurture, new research on twins hints at a crack in the conventional view that environment and genes combine to influence our traits. “Environment makes twins different – that’s ...