Schematic diagram of extracting tomato architectural traits. (a) Inflorescence height. (b) Fruit spacing. (c) Total leaf area. (d) Leaf inclination angle. (e) Leaf spacing. (f) Stem thickness.

Researchers from the University of Oslo have developed an innovative tool that promises to improve our understanding of heritable human traits and diseases. Published in Nature Genetics, the ...

An analysis of twin cohort data suggests that human life span is far more heritable than previously believed. The findings of the analysis show that ...

The genes of an organism play an important role in the development of characteristic traits. However, even the traits of genetically identical clones that grow up under the same environmental ...

Where does our personality come from? Are we the way we are because of nature or nurture? Is the degree to which we differ from each other in, say, how extraverted or agreeableness we are primarily ...