A new study has uncovered evidence suggesting that a person’s inherited predisposition for higher levels of the tau protein ...

A new medication for treatment-resistant depression may help a subset of people who carry a specific genetic marker.

Kidney disease is a common, irreversible complication of diabetes. Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses genetic markers to predict whether a type 2 diabetic will develop kidney disease ...

Researchers have uncovered DNA markers associated with retroelements, remnants of ancient viral genetic material, in our genes that act as highly accurate epigenetic clocks predicting chronological ...

One of the world's greatest genetic mysteries is how a DNA marker present in Europe reached North America, leaving no clear trail through Siberia or Alaska. Scientists have been baffled by how ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

The symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism have many things in common; they are both common psychiatric diagnosis of children, they are heritable conditions, and there ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

There's a long-standing debate in the wild ramp community, with one faction arguing that there is only one species of the ...