Why a study of 1.14 million people produced opposite headlines from the same paperAt the beginning of September, a paper was ...

Autism spectrum disorder, also known simply as autism or ASD, is a developmental disorder that can vary widely from one patient to another. It can affect how people behave, socialize, or communicate ...

The gene that decides orange is on the X chromosome The orange coat colour in cats is controlled by a gene called O (for ...

Why do some people feel chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing a powerful work of art, while others do not? New research by Giacomo Bignardi and his colleagues from Max Planck ...

National Institutes of Health researchers and collaborators have discovered over 100 new regions of the human genome, also known as genomic loci, that appear to influence a person's blood pressure.

A rare genetic mutation could help to explain why some people who don’t smoke still develop lung cancer.

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...

A previvor is someone who has not had cancer but has learned they carry an inherited gene change that raises their risk.

For couples who go through in vitro fertilization, few outcomes are as dispiriting as the repeated failure of seemingly ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become pandemic pathogens. The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

A deadly outbreak of meningococcal disease in Kent earlier this year was caused by the pathogen picking up genetic material ...