"Bauer sucht Frau" star Anna Heiser has received the results of her cancer genetic test. Opening the message was anything but ...

Jeff Carroll, a scientist who carries the mutant gene for Huntington's disease, is now part of a global initiative to advance ...

Emphasis is placed on assembling multidisciplinary expertise, including genetic counseling and second opinions, to facilitate informed, preference-concordant management decisions. Risk-management ...

By Deena Beasley June 3 (Reuters) - Cathy Smithwick, now 67, has lived with breast cancer, and then ovarian cancer, for more ...

Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep to function properly. Some people can feel well-rested and show no negative effects of sleep deprivation, even after just 4 hours of sleep, which is likely the ...

Researchers relied on a newer gene-editing technique that may make it possible to engineer embryos, a prospect that has long ...

A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a new pathway through which mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 gene—found very frequently in human tumors—hijack DNA ...

Theo the Pit Bull has the body and build of the muscular breed, though he was born with a mutation in his DNA that gives him ...

A hidden genetic mutation could predict a man’s likelihood of developing dementia. That’s according to an Australian study led by Monash and Curtin Universities, which analyzed the medical data of ...

The donor's sperm carried a mutation that causes Li-Fraumeni syndrome or LFS, one of the most severe inherited cancer predisposition syndromes. A recent case in Europe has reignited debate over the ...

Did you know that a simple genetic test called DNA testing is all that is needed to understand if you are at risk of ...