HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed Michelle Branham as chair of the federal Advisory Council on Alzheimer’s ...

The Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners added genetic counselors to its list of licensed professionals, the board announced Wednesday.

Analysis of hundreds of environmental exposures and health outcomes quantifies influence of nongenetic factors ...

For decades, scientists have been carefully unraveling the role of genes in disease by examining how small variations in a person's genetic code can shape lifelong risk of developing common conditions ...

Following the global pandemic of COVID-19, everyone in the world learned to be hyperaware of their health, their hygiene, and ...

The goal isn’t to live forever, it’s to be physically present and mentally sharp for as long as possible,” he emphasizes. My paternal grandmother, Mimi, lived to 100. Her siblings lived into their 90s ...

Stoke Therapeutics is developing a drug designed to reduce seizures and restore some of their lost developmental function.

The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve damage ...

Ava, Olivia, and Landon Langenhop were all born with a rare and life-threatening immune disorder called severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency-I, or LAD-I. This rare genetic condition makes them at risk ...

An interdisciplinary study published in Nature reconstructs over 2,000 years of population history in Argentina's Uspallata ...

Before Yersinia pestis devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, the bacteria ravaged the Bronze Age for nearly two millennia.

Bowhead whales survived thousands of years of climate change, but human hunting caused damage that still continues today.