To put it simply, organisms inherit a copy of each gene from each parent. For a small group of genes, roughly one hundred, a copy from the father or the copy from the mother is the only one expressed.

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT, also known as cloning) technology holds great potential in animal production and regenerative medicine. However, the extremely low efficiency and frequently ...

This is not the case in genomic imprinting, which gets reset in each generation. Explaining the evolution of imprinting The results from the Burga group cement the evolutionary link between ...