Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and an international team of collaborators have used a ...

In A Nutshell A large genetic study found significant overlap between certain psychiatric conditions and 73 physical diseases ...

Ancient DNA reveals how farming accelerated human evolution, driving genetic changes over the past 10,000 years.

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

Research on Tourette’s indicates that the condition is strongly influenced by inherited genetic factors, with environmental factors also contributing to its development. Tourette syndrome is a ...

Familial Alzheimer’s disease is a rare, inherited form of Alzheimer’s that usually develops earlier than other forms of the disease. It’s due to specific genetic variants that tend to run in families.

Human anatomy is far from complete, with ongoing discoveries reshaping understanding of variation, structure, and disease.

A new study by the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that genetics and lifespan may be more closely linked than ...