Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team has recently shown that two harmful genetic variants, ...

An estimated 3 million Americans have an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. But ...

A genetic variant inherited from Neanderthals has been linked to reduced severity of Covid-19. Researchers traced the ...

The gene variant posing the greatest genetic risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is called APOE-ε4. A different variant of the same gene, APOE-ε2, is thought to confer protection against AD.

People who stay mentally sharp into their 80s may owe their edge to rare gene variants that lower Alzheimer’s risk and boost ...

Data from a major U.S. clinical trial from the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology has uncovered a genetic factor that ...

Every community in Shetland has backed calls for an islands-wide project to screen for a faulty gene which can increase the ...

A gene that is important for human hearing could determine whether a dog’s ears are pendulous like a basset hound’s or stubby ...

In a groundbreaking study published in the in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists at Pacific ...

Superagers is a term that generally describes adults 80 and older with episodic memory performance similar to that of people ...

Up to 5% of Americans may carry genetic variants associated with cancer risk, according to a cross-sectional analysis.The ...

A rare genetic variant found in families affected by schizophrenia completely abolishes the function of TAAR1, an emerging ...