The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

As more people start to opt for genetic carrier testing ahead of conception, doctors and parents-to-be are facing difficult ...

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in the world among women, with more than 2.3 million cases a year ...

Researchers in Göttingen, Germany, have elucidated the structure and function of otoferlin, a protein that plays a crucial ...

The new program is validated in a set of clinical pedigrees demonstrating its practical accuracy and relevance to the field. Collectively, the data are compelling and support the major conclusions of ...

There’s both fact and fiction to the rumors that twins run in families and tend to skip a generation. Here’s how heredity impacts your odds of conceiving twins.

Human embryos formed with in vitro fertilisation can develop genetic abnormalities in the time between genetic testing and ...

A growing number of people are getting genetic testing for breast cancer, which has become more comprehensive and ...

Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to ...

Many babies enter the world with silent metabolic or genetic conditions. Today, standard newborn screening can check for some ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...