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GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland likes the potential of newborn testing, but she says her Stamford, Connecticut, company is still studying the idea. A potential challenge: Insurers would have to embrace ...

For the first time, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers have studied how work, volunteering and leisure activities ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

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Scientists have pinpointed nearly 300 "hotspots" in the human genome that may increase the risk of bipolar disorder. In the largest study of its kind to date, an international research team conducted ...

In this chapter of the ‘Ask the Expert’ series, the Chief Scientific Officer of Nutrigene, Dr. Lee LJ, answers common ...

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A person’s lifetime risk of cancer might be partly established before they are even born, a new mouse study says.Resear ...

New research uncovers how declining protein clearance mechanisms with age lead to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other ...