The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year grant initially worth $8.37 ...

Gene mutations have consequences both good and bad—from resistance to conditions like diabetes to susceptibility to certain cancers. In order to study these mutations, scientists need to introduce ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

Researchers have uncovered a rare inherited mutation linked to prostate cancer—and it could help identify at-risk families ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) report that the gene, CHRNA3, acts as a key regulator of alcohol sensitivity. Published in ...

Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have discovered how a mutated gene kicks off a dangerous chain of events during blood cell production. "We know that many diseases—and all cancers ...

After undergoing IVF you’re now a mum to two boys, but you don’t know if your family is complete. You’ve got one last embryo ...

A new study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered how one of the most common ...

Most people with ALS don’t have a family history of it. Still, some cases of ALS are linked to inheriting specific gene mutations. Even nonfamilial cases can be linked to sporadic gene mutations that ...