Researchers discovered that some variants of the gene known as GRIN2A can cause certain conditions all on their own.

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the ...

Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

Rett syndrome is a rare developmental disorder, most often due to a mutation in the MECP2 gene on the X chromosome, but it’s not usually inherited. Advances in genetics have launched a new era in ...

The FDA on Tuesday approved etuvetidigene autotemcel (Waskyra) as the first cell-based gene therapy for patients 6 months and ...

The findings of a study strongly suggest that genetic testing should be done on all children with heart failure and ...

What Happened? Shares of genetic testing company Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ:MYGN) jumped 2.5% in the afternoon session after the ...

Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and president of Rockefeller University, is well known in biology circles. Not so his wife, Dr. Esther Lederberg – whose name was drowned in the annals of the history ...

Hair genetics can come from either parent, and multiple genes can determine hair traits, such as color, texture, and growth. Genes can also affect hair loss. Although it can run in families, this is ...