Project MinE, an international consortium co-founded by researchers at King's College London, has identified new genetic ...

A massive genetic analysis of more than 6 million people is revealing new clues about why mental health disorders frequently overlap.

Genetics is the study of genes and how they influence characteristics and health. Through a variety of technological methods, environmental factors, and lifestyle choices, it is possible to alter some ...

Myriad Genetics has grown from a mainly Hereditary Cancer business into a broader precision medicine company. Click here to ...

The transition from water to land is a question that still intrigues scientists. Those ancient organisms would have needed to ...

The field of genetics is advancing through rapid improvements in genomic assays, analysis methods, functional validation, and clinical and agricultural ...

Over the past decade, advances in cancer genetics and oncogenomic have profoundly reshaped our understanding of pediatric tumors. Unlike adult cancers, ...

We educate medical students, residents and practicing health care providers. Our division's faculty directs and contributes many of the lectures to the Cell and Molecular Biology course for the first ...

Shaped by fads and one-size-fits-all approaches, current dietary practices rely on the idea that everyone needs the same food to achieve similar results, an idea challenged by new research from the ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Are you mostly a product of the genes you inherit or your experiences in life? This question intrigues many people, including addiction researchers. In this post, I provide an overview of key research ...