For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

One of the maddening things about our financial services industry is how slowly it has been innovating to help the growing ranks of the relatively rich and retired. Take equity release mortgages. They ...

The family of Lee Jae-yong has completed payment of about 12 trillion won ($8.1 billion) in inheritance taxes, marking the largest such payment.

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...