"I apologize for not dying soon enough for you," one boomer wrote to me, "so your generation can pick over my financial bones ...

Rudolf Virchow, a 19th-century Prussian pathologist, considered organisms a kind of “cellular democracy,” a harmonious republic of cooperating cells. Wilhelm Roux, who studied under Virchow and later ...

Benjamin Franklin referred to death and taxes as "the only certainties in life." And the inheritance tax touches on both. It's a levy on money, property or other assets a person leaves to others after ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

When US researchers compared inheritors with those who received different windfalls such as legal settlements or lottery wins, they uncovered something interesting. Those who inherited money were 24 ...

In this Review, Valpione et al. discuss how the current applications of liquid biopsies in precision oncology might be expanded to provide a more holistic and personalized view of cancer and to ...

We developed a genome-wide allele-specific methylation framework using long-read sequencing to characterize intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in mice. This framework revealed non-Mendelian ...