The obesity rate has been steadily climbing and so have scientific efforts to understand why. A new study, published in ...

Baylor Genetics, a joint venture clinical diagnostic laboratory at the forefront of genetic testing, and the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine have entered a lab ...

Scientists have made an important discovery in medical genetics by identifying a new disease called Lyn kinase-associated ...

Medical genetics is an interdisciplinary field that studies the role of genetic variation in human disease. It investigates a wide range of conditions—from single-gene disorders to complex polygenic ...

Women are significantly more likely than men to develop Alzheimer's disease. Earlier age at menopause is associated with a ...

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) has released its highly anticipated 2025 update to the recommended minimum gene list for the reporting of secondary findings (SF) in ...

Technological advances, higher chronic disease prevalence, a greater focus on personalized healthcare, AI and big data, and regulatory changes, including orphan drug market expansions, have bolstered ...

The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, also moved the needle. Scientists had successfully ...

The researchers also found that the genetic factors linked to depression overlap more with genes for metabolic traits in females than in males. The differences may help explain why females with ...

Medical pioneer’ has pig kidney removed from his body 271 days after animal-to-human transplant - The first attempts at using ...

According to the Georgia Cancer Institute, breast cancer accounts for nearly 30 percent of all cancer cases in the state, with about 10,000 women expected to be diagnosed this year alone.