Today's biomedical researchers are relentlessly searching for genes that drive disease, with the goal of creating therapies ...

Experts say, when making culling decisions, remember to look at calf weaning weight in comparison to cow size.

Because only part of the man's sperm carried the mutation, only the second round of genetic testing revealed the problem. By ...

Two different groups migrated to what become Australia and New Guinea 60,000 years ago, and researchers are only just ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

A dad found out he has been living with a rare incurable disease for 35 years when he put his son through genetic testing — after dismissing his aches and pains for aging. Robin Schultz, 35, and his ...

The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging closer after a lab study ...

Gwinnett County runner Holden Cammarata is attempting a 100-mile run at Little Mulberry Park to honor his friend with Williams syndrome and raise awareness and support for the rare genetic disorder.

For years, many families have believed that a child’s intelligence is inherited from the mother, a claim often repeated in ...

Biological age tests promise insights into aging, but are they accurate or useful? What science shows about benefits, limits, ...

Lindberg had Parkinson’s disease, the neurologist said, with all the classic symptoms. PD—as the scientists she would meet ...

Researchers discovered that a long-misunderstood protein plays a key role in helping chromosomes latch onto the right “tracks” during cell division. Instead of acting like a motor, it works more like ...