The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is among 50 trusts taking part in the genome sequencing.

Researchers at McGill University and the United States Forest Service have found that plants living in areas where human ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. A major cohort study suggests that consistent adherence to established healthy eating patterns may add years to life, even after accounting for genetic predisposition.

About 1 in 4 people suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. These include panic disorder with sudden, severe anxiety attacks; generalized anxiety disorder, in which sufferers ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...

What if cattle were selected not only for their productivity, but also for their resistance to disease? A study conducted by ...

Despite decades of research, scientists struggle to understand the mental health implications of DNA. Researchers were able ...

Modern humans are thought to have walked out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, and they kept going until they reached every habitable part of the planet. Researchers have now revealed more about the ...

A recent study from Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope National Medical Center’s Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) found that individuals with a family history of Alzheimer’s disease may ...

Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric disorder that starts in late adolescence or early adulthood and affects around 1 in 300 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. “Previous ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.