Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Genetic and genomic testing guide breast cancer risk assessment and treatment, as discussed by Dr. Mark Robson at the Miami ...

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in America, and while many are aware of the impact of lifestyle choices on ...

A long-term human trial has found that a discontinued drug halved the presentation of early-onset Alzheimer's disease in ...

Scientists from UCLA, the University of Toronto and the University of Melbourne have uncovered new genetic clues that explain why some prostate cancers remain slow-growing while others become ...

With genetic testing, we know more than ever about this devastating disease—but genes are only one part of the story.

An experimental drug appears to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease in people destined to develop the condition in middle ...

The findings, published in Cancer Discovery, evaluated the roles of inherited genetic factors passed down from our parents and somatic mutations acquired during tumor formation. The research shows ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our ...

You also cannot change whether you’ll develop a genetic mutation in your inherited genes. But just because you have a parent or sibling with ADHD doesn’t mean you’ll have it too. We inherit ...

Scientists have found a potential new gene variant target to treat sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that ...

UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.