As we age, our cells accumulate genetic changes—mutations—some of which open the door to cancer. Scientists call these ...

Diseases like cancer or neurodegeneration are known to arise from genetic misfires. But treating such complex conditions hasn ...

A clinician-led approach boosts genetic testing among relatives of people with newly detected pathogenic variants — and could help close a gap in hereditary cancer prevention.

Aston University bioscientist Dr John Reynolds has won a £125,000 Springboard grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) for research into neurodegeneration caused by a rare genetic disease.

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

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A man in Norway was cured of HIV after undergoing a stem cell transplant from his brother. After over a decade with HIV, a ...

Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes constant feelings of hunger, as well as poor muscle tone and low levels of sex hormones.

UAB is leading a national study examining how personalized genetic risk information can improve prevention of chronic ...

Remarkably, 98 percent of our DNA does not code for genes. Once considered “junk DNA,” it is now well appreciated that these ...

An international group have discovered associations between pathogenic variants of the BRCA 1 and 2 genes and four types of ...

A long-standing mystery in cancer treatment is how tumor cells so often become resistant to drugs, even ones they have never encountered before.