A new study by UCLA Health published in Cell presents a major advancement in the future of personalized medicine by ...

A blood test clarifies which gene variants truly cause congenital heart defects, linking diagnosis to more precise ...

What if you could take a test to help you catch, or even prevent, cancer? A free genetic screening study through Sanford ...

Genetic risk in mental illness is not equal, with some disorders highly distinct and others sharing broad inherited vulnerability.

When a person with cancer finds out they carry an inherited genetic variant that puts them at higher risk of cancer, the ...

When people ask "is cancer a genetic disease?" they are often thinking about family history: if my parent had cancer, will I? The short answer is complicated but important: cancer is driven by genetic ...

Researchers analyze 2.2 million genomes to show that addiction risk is primarily driven by broad genes affecting brain wiring ...

Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited by a child -- may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report. Parents' genes -- even when not directly inherited ...

Parents' genes—even when not directly inherited by a child—may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report by UCL researchers. The report, "Understanding the ...

Many species appear to go extinct suddenly or to suffer catastrophic collapses by which time it is too late to save them. At ...