DKD.P. Kasbekar

1. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · D.P. Kasbekar

   If DNA is the instruction manual, we just opened a big second volume (opens the original)

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   A team led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found that several inherited traits in the mouse genome break the rules Gregor Mendel laid down in the 19th century about how genes work. This is not because the genes mutate but because of chemical modifications of the genome that can jump across generations, change depending on whether an animal is male or female, and even copy themselves from one copy of a gene to another. Their findings were reported recently in Nature Gen

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2. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · D.P. Kasbekar

   Hold tight! How two hurricanes forced a lizard to change its grip (opens the original)

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   Picture a lizard the length of your finger clinging to a tree branch. The cause of its desperation is a 265 km/hr wind tearing through the air, threatening to peel it off like a loose sticker. Just this happened twice in two weeks to a population of small brown anoles in the Turks and Caicos Islands in September 2017. So since then, these lizards have evolved to cling harder. Four days before Hurricane Irma made landfall, a team of scientists from Princeton and Harvard Universities had wrapped u

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