There are more male orange cats than females because this gene is located on the X-chromosome, which males only have one copy ...

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.

A new study suggests that vitamin D supplementation may help preserve the lengths of the protective caps at the ends of ...

Genetic defects are exceedingly common, which is not surprising considering just how many cells make up our bodies, including our reproductive cells. While most of these defects have no or only ...

Genetic medicine reaches a major milestone with a system capable of inserting entire genes into human DNA. This breakthrough ...

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an“aggressive” form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. But ...

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the ...

Golden Helix today announced the release of VarSeq 3 and VSWarehouse 3, marking a major milestone in enterprise-scale secondary and tertiary genomic analysis. The release introduces cloud-native ...

Outwardly, there didn’t seem to be a reason for me to see Andrew Davis. As a doctor who specializes in treating and ...

Women age differently from men when it comes to health—particularly in conditions like cardiovascular disease and ...

Height is one of the most evident sex-based differences observed in humans, as men are on an average 13 cm (5 inches) taller ...

A recent study examining genetic information from almost one million individuals has helped explain why men tend to be taller ...