Sudden cardiac deaths among youth are not rare flukes. With increasing stress, poor sleep, unhealthy diet, and sedentary ...

Men who carry two copies of a common genetic variant may face more than double the risk of developing dementia in their ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects nearly one in three adults around the globe. It ...

Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to know about symptoms and vaccines.

With dementia diagnoses climbing to 55 million cases globally and 10 million new patients identified each year, medical ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common, debilitating neurodegenerative disease affecting about 10% of people over the age of 65 ...

One promising target is the gene that codes for the human ACE2 receptor and those that regulate its expression on cell surfaces. The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 must bind to ACE2 to ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.