Plunge for Elodie is scheduled for March 22 at 10:30am at Wellesley’s Morses Pond to raise awareness and funds ...

Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn't unheard ...

Scientists say a concerning genetic mutation has appeared in H5N1 bird flu infected cats living in a New Jersey suburb of New ...

Genetically targeted technologies are built on Nobel Prize-winning science. They represent a scientific “quantum leap” that ...

Limiting daily television viewing to one hour or less may help reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases, even in individuals with a high genetic predisposition to ...

Exercise is often seen as a key to living a longer life, but new research from Finland suggests that the relationship between ...

I have been living with a secret for close to 55 years. My first cousin, whom I am very close with, was adopted from a ...

With genetic testing, we know more than ever about this devastating disease—but genes are only one part of the story.

Moderate exercise lowers mortality risk, but higher activity levels offer no extra benefit. Biological aging accelerates in ...

Researchers are using gene editing techniques to introduce beneficial traits like polled and disease resistance, as well as ...

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a family of genetic disorders that causes clusters of cysts to form on the kidney, is among the most common genetic disorders, affecting some 500,000 people in the ...