Right now, approximately 20 billion red blood cells are busy traveling through your blood vessels. They are delivering oxygen ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

An analysis of the genomes of nearly 6,000 Greenlandic people suggests that their Inuit ancestors rarely moved around after ...

After a genetic test, Alex Swanson learned he has hereditary hemochromatosis, a condition causing iron overload that can lead ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 1% of live births. Thanks to surgical advancements, infants born with ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

Myriad Genetics develops and offers genetic tests that help assess the risk of developing disease or disease progression and guide treatment decisions across medical specialties where genetic ...