World Down Syndrome Day 2026 theme, “Together Against Loneliness,” highlights isolation's impact on individuals and encourages communities to foster belonging and inclusion.

A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary ...

Mike Francisco was an athletic 35-year-old Phoenix medical professional when he was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer. His story is not unusual.

Chronic pancreatitis is now recognized as a complex fibroinflammatory disorder involving genetic, environmental, and ...

Close relatives of MS patients are 100 times more likely to develop the disorder than the general population, a study reports ...

But the phrase genetic supremacist is very apt. A strange part of the strange life of Jeffrey Epstein was his obsession with ...

By combining museum specimens, DNA analysis and historical records, researchers are revealing how these ancient animals once ...

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

Explore 40 years of PCR history, from Kary Mullis’s invention story to the rise of digital PCR and how it revolutionized ...

Study shows how ancient Andean people faced hardships using kinship networks to survive environmental change, disease and ...

Rutgers-Newark researchers have shown that a genetic variant specific to African ancestry alters the brain in a way that could foretell the eventual development of Alzheimer's Disease. At the same ...

I don’t really see the point of grafting onto him our vision of what he ought to have been doing. I’m interested in trying to ...