IT has long been suspected that the problem of the transmission from parent to offspring of somato-genic modifications (“acquired characters”) might be solved more readily by physiological experiments ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

Can 100-Year-Old Research Lead to the Discovery of Novel Mechanisms of Inheritance? International Team to Reevaluate and Recreate Experiments from Vienna’s Legendary Biologische Versuchsanstalt, Led ...

THIS is a valuable addition to the rapidly-increasing literature dealing with the subject of inheritance. It affords a good example of the growing complexity of the theories which have been founded on ...

Long time readers of Dog O’Day may recall a previous article about the experiments in fox domestication. One notable experiment mentioned started in Siberia in 1959, the silver fox domestication ...

In a startling exception to classical genetics, mice in a lab experiment have inherited an effect of an aberrant gene without inheriting the gene itself. Experts say the result may someday help ...