View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. A gene is a unit of inheritance, passed from parent to offspring, made up of DNA. Depending on the definition, a gene may be considered a stretch ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who carry disease-causing genes experience no symptoms. Every biology student ...

Researchers say study represents a resource that could also help to dissect Y-gene functions in other tissues.