Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric disorders can share startlingly similar genetic ...

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 ...

Researchers in Detroit say they’ve identified a naturally occurring genetic variant that appears to lower the risk of ...

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

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

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 ...

He provided the first convincing evidence that cancerous tumors develop from a single mutated cell and later helped expose ...