Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don’t seem to suffer ill effects. Turns out they’re genetically ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is expected “in the coming days” to announce a new strategy to fight the escalating ...

Jaime Bortz, 39, is losing her memory to dementia. Her mom, now a full-time carer, is foreshadowing the burden many families will experience as dementia cases rise.

In the mid-19th century, Charles Darwin unveiled a revolutionary idea. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species crashed through the ...

An expert explains the importance of genetic testing in metastatic colorectal cancer, as recent FDA approval highlights its ...

Scientists found that evolution itself can evolve. Organisms exposed to changing environments develop a better ability to ...

A 75-year-old man with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s has yet to show signs of the disease. Could this offer ...

“Once a population has achieved this evolvability, it seems like it didn’t get erased by future evolution,” Zaman said. This ...

Scientists discovered that DNA mutations influence aging by altering epigenetic changes and biological clocks.

The researchers found that having ever used oral contraception reduced odds of ovarian cancer by 26% (odds ratio [OR], 0.74; 95% CI, 0.66-0.84). Further, those who stopped using oral contraception at ...

Chimerix holds the potential to have the first approval of dordaviprone for treating recurrent H3 K27M mutant high-grade ...

Brandi Muhle was 9 years old when her 35-year-old mother, an Omaha police officer and a marathon runner, was first diagnosed ...