A new study by researchers at King's College London has split schizophrenia risk into two genetically distinct pathways. One ...

Genetic ancestry may play a key role in how acral melanoma, a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer, develops and behaves, ...

In an international study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a gene variant that controls the body's ...

A pioneering test is improving early diagnosis for people with hereditary cancer caused by a genetic condition. Just over 30 years ago, Carol Coughtrey was diagnosed with bowel cancer and a blood test ...

Scientists have pinpointed crucial genetic resistance to a fungal disease that threatens the global banana supply in a wild ...

23andMe Research Institute today announced the publication of a new study highlighting the positive health actions taken by people who learned of their risk through direct-to-consumer genetic testing.

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default way people are going to choose to have kids is via IVF and embryo screening,” she said at the ...

Ancient DNA from a Stone Age burial site in Sweden shows that families 5,500 years ago were more complex than expected. Many individuals buried together were not immediate family, but second- or third ...