The post Obesity Risk Can Now Be Identified In Childhood Thanks To A Simple Genetic Test first on TwistedSifter. With over 40% of American adults considered obese, and that statistic alone accounting ...

Challenges in RNA-Seq analysis. (a) Commonly used normalization methods assume that only a small proportion of transcripts are differentially expressed between conditions (small, dashed inner circle ...

A genetic risk for heart disease is far less predictive of problems than actual lifestyle risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes -- even among younger adults. In a ...

Millions struggle with depression and anxiety, often enduring long waits for effective treatment. Scientists in Sweden, ...

Testing for genetic mutations in urine can detect bladder cancer years before the disease shows clinical symptoms, new research has shown. The study, by researchers from France, Iran and the United ...