A survey found that clinicians are not discussing genetic testing with 80% of patients with kidney disease who meet ...

Endeavor Health researchers have developed a new, more comprehensive test that can give a clearer picture of patients' genetic risk for coronary artery disease, better known as heart disease.

As predictive medicine advances, legal scholars warn that decades-old federal guidelines could set up a potential clash between your genes and your job.

When a child develops kidney failure or a rare bone disorder, the cause can seem painfully immediate. It may be a single ...

Researchers have developed a technique that can identify errors caused by mutations linked to a range of genetic disorders, ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that ...

A group of Queen’s researchers is hoping to use gene therapy and new grant money to cure a handful of rare, usually fatal ...

Bipolar disorder impairs cognition, damages the brain, and leads to dementia—or does it? New research flips the story.

A new computational tool called MARRVEL-MCP helps researchers move toward genetic diagnoses more efficiently by analyzing and ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...