Most people assume avoiding cigarettes guarantees protection from severe respiratory disease. That sense of safety has just been shattered. A rare inheritance is silently driving a devastating illness ...

De genetische mutatievariant is in verband gebracht met een 62 keer hoger risico op het ontwikkelen van longkanker.

The University of Connecticut will offer a Professional Science Masters in Genetic Counseling beginning the 2023-2024 academic year. It will be the first such program at a public university in New ...

Studying how genes influence human behavior is an enormously complicated undertaking. Socio-genomicists are harnessing massive banks of genetic data and complex data science analysis techniques to ...

Nevertheless, some preliminary steps have been taken. Researchers have managed to add some new amino acids to a bacterial ...

A genetic mutation that raises lung cancer risk was much more common among those born in Southeastern states than elsewhere in the U.S.

A research team has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed, which affects zinc regulation, could have signified ...

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune condition where the immune system destroys insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreas. Yet, not all patients lose insulin function at the same pace. Understanding ...

A recent study has drawn controversy by implying genetic links between bisexuality in men and a propensity for risk-taking. This research on human sexual behavior, published in January in Science ...

A rapid koala rebound in southeastern Australia is also boosting their genetic variation, showing one way out of an extinction death spiral. After nearly disappearing from the region over a century ...