The Netherlands has once again made it into the top 10 in the ranking of the world’s happiest countries, claiming fifth place in the World Happiness ...

Although cystic fibrosis is a single gene mutation, there are more than 1,000 different ways the CFTR gene can mutate in ...

N ot much can top the sheer cuteness of a fluffy 10-week-old Newfoundland puppy waddling around like a tiny, furry tank. And ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

A study led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego sheds new light on how a type of heart valve disease, called aortic valve stenosis, progresses differently in males and females.

Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is the fifth most common cancer worldwide, with nearly one million new cases in ...

Friday is World Down Syndrome Day, a time to raise awareness about those who were born with an extra chromosome. Wednesday, ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically analyzed somatic mutations in stomach lining tissue to unpick mutational ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.

Patients with lung adenocarcinoma – the most common type of cancer among non-smokers -- carry a specific mutation in the ...

In a recent study, scientists have developed a revolutionary chromosome identification system for alfalfa, one of the world's ...