One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it's usually to try to identify a disease-causing ...

Although sedentary behavior may be an evolutionarily selected trait, it is still important to try to be physically active, says a new study. Researchers have shown for the first time that genetic ...

Articulating a comprehensive definition of health and disease has been a historically intricate task. The earliest conceptual frameworks for health and disease can be traced back to the ancient ...

– The Alnylam Act ® program is a genetic testing initiative designed to enable improved patient diagnosis of three rare, devastating, and life-threatening genetic diseases – – Through the Alnylam Act ...

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu said that later this year his lab plans to report on a single gene-editing strategy that could treat many ...

A study conducted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has demonstrated that a genetic variant, ...

In the first few weeks of life, babies are sometimes offered a newborn blood spot screening to check for an inherited condition such as maple syrup urine disease (MSUD). This is a very rare genetic ...