Fibromyalgia has long frustrated both patients and physicians. Its symptoms seem to spill across the boundaries of pain, ...

More than a month after the sample was taken, the Cuban boy Eithan is still waiting for genetic studies in Argentina. The ...

Preface]About this articleThis is not an article intended to provide medical conclusions.Can the explanation that “one develops bipolar disorder as a secondary disability because they have a ...

AFI will make SRY gene testing mandatory across all approved competitions and age groups from 2027. The test detects the SRY ...

For decades, the hunt for the genetic roots of common disease has focused overwhelmingly on single-letter changes in the DNA ...

A deadly outbreak of meningococcal disease in Kent earlier this year was caused by the pathogen picking up genetic material ...

New genome analysis suggests the Kent MenB strain picked up DNA from harmless throat bacteria, raising its virulence.

"I come from a long-lived family, so I'll live a long time too."Conversely, "My parent passed away early, so I won't live a long time either."There are quite a few people who think this way.However, ...

Repetitive satellite DNA in fruit flies appears to act like a chromosome-specific barcode, helping matching chromosome pairs find each other during meiosis. When researchers disrupted satellite DNA ...

Genetic risk for PTSD appears to interact differently with different traumatic experiences, with some of the strongest patterns linked to childhood trauma.

Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are ...