Researchers have found that risk for developing dementia is related to genetic risk for coronary artery disease.

A novel treatment for Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON), a rare genetic disease that can lead to sudden loss of ...

For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that germs are the underlying cause of infectious diseases. Someone coughs ...

Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks ...

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

An international team of researchers led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Copenhagen in ...

Genetics research in Parkinson's disease has identified over 100 risk loci, yet translating these findings into understanding ...

Discover how in some communities around the world, the prevalence of rare diseases is higher due to factors like cousin ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

People with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) — often an inherited disease marked by abnormally thickened heart muscle — face a looming risk of heart failure, arrhythmia, and sudden cardiac arrest.

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome - known as the mycobiome - and ...