A Florida state legislator sponsored the nation's first state-backed genetic screening program after his son died from a rare genetic disease.

How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Take our hands, for example: Every time we type a ...

The controversial boxer sat down with a French newspaper, where she revealed that she's intersex and takes hormones to keep ...

Surrogacy will only grow in popularity as maternal age continues to climb and priorities shift. That makes it all the more important to talk about the downsides to what is so often presented as an ...

In order to move forward, it is expected that existing data from the Phase 2b/3 Anavex 2-73 AD-004 program be submitted to the FDA. In December, as expected, the CHMP adopted a negative opinion on the ...

Among them was David Liu, a biochemist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Liu isn’t a ...

Researchers are applying insights into the genetic variations and physiology of obesity to apply tailored interventions to ...

Testing the biological sex of an athlete is becoming more common in sport, with governing bodies defending the practice as ...

Why do some people live to 100 while their sibling dies decades earlier? Is it luck, lifestyle, or something written into their DNA? Relative to many other species, humans are particularly long-lived, ...

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein paid for genetic testing in an apparent bid to harness his own genetic material for regenerative medicine – which is aimed at repairing the body by developing ...

With a shared purpose, we can realize the true promise of CRISPR and improve healthcare, providing hope to more patients with ...

Daniele Canzio, PhD, of the Department of Neurology and Balyn Zaro, PhD, of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry have ...