Extension and specialization inheritance are two viewpoints of inheritance that are usually at odds; i.e., to fully support extension inheritance one should sacrifice specialization inheritance and ...

Metabolic changes associated with a high-fat diet can be passed from father to offspring, but the mechanisms that underlie this process are unclear. Now, Chen et al. show that mice fed a high-fat diet ...

In all living things, DNA is essential for inheritance, coding for proteins, and providing instructions for life and its processes. DNA dictates how a human or animal develops and reproduces, and ...