Runners stripped down to their skivvies and hit the streets of Westport on Saturday for the 12th annual Cupid’s Undie Run, raising money and awareness for neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that ...

Mother told she would never walk again regains independence with son’s help - Karen Kerr was previously told she would never ...

GENA highlights how AI and genomic intelligence transform rare disease identification, speeding diagnosis and improving ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint ...

For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (BD) were treated as distinct and unrelated psychiatric disorders.

Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

New research maps genetic “hotspots” for hemochromatosis, revealing uneven risk and possible underdiagnosis across the UK and Ireland.

Model organisms have played an indispensable role in advancing our understanding of neurological disorders and developing ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

Firestein’s interest in autism research began long before she entered a laboratory. Raised in New York, she attended ...