Inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, or IBMFS, describes a group of disorders in which inherited genetic abnormalities ...

You are what you eat, but what happens to those calories after you eat may depend more on your genes than you think.

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Analysis of one million diverse genomes yields mutations associated with lower risk of diabetes, heart disease and other ...

A single dose of a cancer-causing chemical, given to mice at 15 days of age, produced strikingly different tumors depending ...

The patient's genetic disorder causes frequent seizures and developmental delays. His progress, along with that of another ...

A study has found that even if all causes of aging, such as telomere shortening, are eliminated, only half of people would ...

A St. Louis company focused on developing better soybean genetics has made a new discovery that could be used to treat cancer ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

Scientists at the University of Idaho discovered a naturally occurring genetic mutation in wheat that is associated with a 5% ...