Researchers find founder effect dating back 1,500 years and sharper endogamy patterns among Pakistani Sindhis than among ...

Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible visual impairment worldwide. Because the disease often progresses without ...

A new study of people 80 and older with exceptional gaits finds fast walkers have about a 50% lower risk of cognitive decline ...

A new Mayo Clinic study shows that integrating telomere length evaluation and genetic testing into pulmonary care can ...

Ambitious public education policies have the capacity to cushion the role of the "genetic lottery" in people's life chances.

A National Institutes of Health study will evaluate whether to screen tens of thousands of healthy infants for genetic diseases.

Scientists have discovered a rare genetic condition which causes people to age at a much faster rate, offering fresh insights ...

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 ...

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS) today announced that it has completed enrollment in the pivotal cohort (Cohort 1) of the global Phase 3 REVEAL study evaluating obudanersen (ION582), an ...

Growing up in a society with a wide gap between the rich and the poor is linked to higher rates of depressive symptoms later ...

The availability of genetic testing for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for people with a family member diagnosed with the disease is expected to greatly increase the number of clinic visits to ...