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

Mass General Brigham has started offering a blood test that estimates a person’s inherited risk for eight different ...

For millions of people living with depression, finding an effective treatment can feel like a long and uncertain journey.

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

Amy Scott, host of the podcast "How We Survive," reports on a company that's working on de-extinction innovation to try and ...

New Iterative Block Particle Filter algorithm makes genomic surveillance faster, cheaper and more scalable, improving early ...

Genetic profiles and the gene editor CRISPR threaten to bring a new eugenics of gene selection, but even eugenicist Foster ...

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Researchers at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre have developed a digital phenotype to assist with automatically identifying ...

A large analysis suggests that a multivariable risk assessment tool, called Stockholm3, can detect substantially more ...

Medicine is rapidly evolving from statistical, evidence-based approaches to predictive, genotype-directed care, driven by ...

Scientists discover karyoptosis, a new cell death mechanism causing nuclear disintegration in Alzheimer's and frontotemporal ...