Global childhood obesity is at an all-time high, and parents find themselves wrestling with a key question: whether their child's weight is due to genetics or lifestyle. The answer isn't always easy.

Baylor Genetics, a clinical diagnostic laboratory at the forefront of genetic testing, today announced it will showcase its leadership in pediatric neurology through three poster presentations and a ...

Bengaluru: When couples struggle to conceive, factors like age, stress, or medical conditions such as PCOS and endometriosis ...

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland explains how her company screens babies’ DNA for mutations that cause thousands of treatable ...

Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to ...

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Scientists are searching for the secret in Doug Whitney’s biology that has protected him from dementia, hoping it could lead to ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s for many other people.

A new study offers clues about what made Maria Branyas Morera exceptional — and what it could mean for the rest of us.

A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study of how these biological traits are inherited. A little over half of ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have developed an artificial ...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cause about one in three deaths worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 19.8 ...

We all know that asthma impacts breathing. What may be less known is that the disease, which restricts our airways due to ...