Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria. A recent study has demonstrated that a genetic variant named rs112233623-T ...

When no one helps you buy your first car or your first house—when there’s no financial boost, no co-signer, no inherited advice—you learn things the hard way sometimes—but you also build these traits.

Researchers have found that a new base-editing gene therapy can help treat a rare neurodevelopmental disorder called Snijders Blok–Campeau syndrome caused by mutations in the CHD3 gene. A specialized ...

Couples can now model 100 potential children across rare and common diseases, offering the most complete picture of ...

A new study suggests that inherited traits explain a small but measurable share of why some people relocate far from where they were born.

When a nuclear disaster empties a landscape of people, nature doesn’t politely wait for instructions. It moves in. After the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, ...