Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

The existence of orange cats dates back to at least the 12th century, but scientists have only had theories that a sex-linked ...

A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at ...

The sperm of a man carrying a rare genetic mutation linked to cancer was used to conceive scores of children across Europe, ...

A rare type of genetic mutation has turned some people into "super sleepers" that can thrive on just four hours of sleep.

For example, comprehensive data about cystic ... one solution is to develop “mutation agnostic” gene therapies targeting all patients with a disease. This approach is being tried in diseases ...

Without 8 or 9 hours of sleep, most of us end up staggering around like zombies. But according to a new study, some people ...

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, ...

Blue light exposure increases genetic mutations in yeast, suggesting potential risks for other organisms, requiring further ...

Voltage-gated calcium channels are associated with numerous diseases.  A new research group led by Nadine Ortner from the ...