Health researchers say Mississippi has the highest colorectal cancer death rate in the nation, and findings from a new study ...

Researchers at the Gladstone Institutes have identified a specific protein, Nell2, that causes neurons in the hippocampus to ...

(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric ...

The National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year grant initially worth $8.37 ...

A vast stretch of islands across the South Pacific holds one of the oldest human stories on Earth. For tens of thousands of ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging have uncovered evidence that a single genetic variant may influence the risk of two of the diseases people fear most—dementia ...

A gene variant tied to more severe MS disability may also correlate with poor cognitive performance in healthy adults, per a ...

More than 3,000 genetic variants influence a person’s susceptibility to weight gain. That inherited risk has become even more ...

Abraham Lincoln, for one, may have had the syndrome—and are at very high risk of a kind of fatal rupture in the heart.

Researchers have validated a genetic scoring tool that may help physicians diagnose idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and ...

The arrival of agriculture coincided with a sharp rise in a gene variant that protected against the virus that causes winter vomiting, researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University ...

A diabetes drug called dapagliflozin may help prevent heart failure in people with genetic variants linked to cardiomyopathy, ...