Researchers at UCLA Health have found that a person's risk of developing psychotic-like experiences may be influenced by both childhood attention problems and their genetic makeup. The findings, ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Debbie Sukin tells her son Jacob every day that she loves him. He very likely will never reply. When Jacob turned 1, Sukin and her husband, Steven, learned their son had Angelman syndrome, a rare ...

When the Human Genome Project was completed back in 2003, its top researcher Dr. Francis Collins, now the head of the National Institutes of Health, referred to it as “the first draft of the human ...

With genetic rescue, introducing unrelated individuals from another population can alleviate these genetic problems." "It allows natural selection to increase the amount of beneficial genetic material ...

The federal government is considering whether to allow scientists to take a controversial step: make changes in some of the genetic material in a woman's egg that would be passed down through ...

Genetics play a role in low testosterone for some men, but underlying causes vary widely. Many genes influence testosterone ...

(HealthDay News) — A questionnaire improves discussion of psychosocial problems during genetic counseling sessions for cancer, according to research published online July 21 in the Journal of Clinical ...

It’s well known that experiencing adverse events in childhood (such as maltreatment, domestic violence, or parental substance abuse) is associated with mental health problems. But, despite decades of ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects nearly one in three adults around the globe. It starts when fat builds up inside the liver’s cells. Over time, this buildup can ...

I’ve always been tempted to do a genetic test to check in on my heart. I’m in pretty good health, but I have a few close relatives who’ve had heart attacks, strokes, and cancer, so I know my genes ...