Using a new technology and computational method, researchers from Fred Hutch Cancer Center and The University of Texas MD ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

Diabetes Test Results: Types of Tests and How to Read Them If you or someone in your family has diabetes, you might be wondering if it is genetic. There are different types of diabetes. For each type, ...

Researchers from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine identified an enzyme, alpha-kinase 2 (ALPK2) that is specifically expressed in the heart. They found that the enzyme may prevent a ...

Genetic testing for PALB2 (linked to an increased risk of breast and pancreatic cancer), CHEK2 (breast and colorectal cancers), BRIP1 (ovarian cancer), and RAD51C and RAD51D (breast and colorectal ...

The first whole genome study of mitochondrial DNA and high-resolution scans of nuclear DNA from endangered shortfin mako sharks in the Atlantic Ocean show relatively high genetic diversity, despite ...

The company, which secured $200 million from investors in a private funding deal last week, learned Tuesday of a serious side effect experienced by one participant on a high dose of its Rett therapy.

The researchers looked for pathogenic variants in DCIS patients in the known breast cancer predisposition genes: ATM, BARD1, BRCA1, BRCA2, CDH1, CHEK2, PALB2 ... suggest DCIS patients could benefit ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations ... to the chemical structure of DNA that do ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Huntington’s is an incurable and fatal genetic condition that progressively affects movement, balance and cognition. It is caused by an inherited mutation in an allele of the HTT gene ...