How would you feel if you had to be the one to challenge Gregor Mendel's paradigm-shifting laws of inheritance? Yet Thomas Hunt Morgan did exactly this and in the process made gene mapping possible.

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate constellations of DNA variants acting together in specific cells. Now a new ...

Scientific debates can be as passionate and high-profile as political ones. Learn about an epic battle waged between the Castle and Morgan laboratories over the organization of genes. Sturtevant's ...