Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, you tend to share things like hair type or athletic ability. Unfortunately, ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy ...

A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease and ...

New research at the University of Alberta may make it easier to diagnose serious diseases that disrupt the body's energy ...