A big meditation on the meaning of ancestry and family. We'll talk to the author of the celebrated new book "Inheritance." 'Inheritance': When DNA Genealogy Shakes Our Identity, Foundation To The Core ...

Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents a rare and intriguing deviation from the standard model of strictly maternal inheritance. In bivalves, DUI manifests as the ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...