A previvor is someone who has not had cancer but has learned they carry an inherited gene change that raises their risk.

If the final scenes of Hereditary had you mind blown, you're not alone. Ellen's daughter, Annie Graham (Toni Collette), becomes increasingly frantic as her family deals with compounding loss and ...

Repetitive DNA and the D1 protein help matching fruit fly chromosomes recognize one another before eggs form.

The study, published in Nature, examined 74 quantitative traits, including cholesterol, blood glucose, hemoglobin, heart rate ...

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Tartu showed a nearly five-fold enrichment of hereditary cancer variants in infertile men compared to fertile men. The article "Significantly ...

Smoking is one of the biggest contributors to lung cancer, but anywhere from 10-20% of cases in the U.S. each year are diagnosed in people who never smoked. In a new study published in Science, ...

A new study sheds light on one of the great enigmas of microbiology: why only certain strains of common bacteria become pandemic pathogens. The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...

For couples who go through in vitro fertilization, few outcomes are as dispiriting as the repeated failure of seemingly ...

Why a study of 1.14 million people produced opposite headlines from the same paperAt the beginning of September, a paper was ...

A deadly outbreak of meningococcal disease in Kent earlier this year was caused by the pathogen picking up genetic material ...