Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

A decade ago this past June, my sister died at the National Institutes of Health. I still have faith in them, and I hope that ...

Epidemic intelligence efforts aim to predict, timely detect and assess (re-)emerging pathogens, guide and evaluate infectious ...

Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus - which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and ...

In a historic moment, SKUAST-K and Murdoch University Australia signed a Memorandum of Understanding for fostering academic ...

The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

The Noonan lab at Yale University is focused on understanding how HARs contribute to the evolution of uniquely human brain features.

Structural variants in the human genome include cytogenetically detectable and submicroscopic deletions, duplications, large-scale copy-number variants, inversions and translocations. The ability ...

Why did humans start speaking? Scientists suggest genetics played a big role. They say the evolution of this singular ability ...

Sweeping layoffs, funding freezes and executive orders have provoked outcry among federal researchers and their university partners, who fear that science itself is under siege.

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...