World Down Syndrome Day 2026 theme, “Together Against Loneliness,” highlights isolation's impact on individuals and encourages communities to foster belonging and inclusion.

A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary ...

From earlier cholesterol checks to new risk tests, UVA’s Dr. Christopher Kramer explains what the updates mean for your ...

Mike Francisco was an athletic 35-year-old Phoenix medical professional when he was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer. His story is not unusual.

Chronic pancreatitis is now recognized as a complex fibroinflammatory disorder involving genetic, environmental, and ...

Close relatives of MS patients are 100 times more likely to develop the disorder than the general population, a study reports ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

CentraCare is expanding its cancer services with the opening of the High-Risk Breast Clinic, a new program launching in April ...

But the phrase genetic supremacist is very apt. A strange part of the strange life of Jeffrey Epstein was his obsession with ...

By combining museum specimens, DNA analysis and historical records, researchers are revealing how these ancient animals once ...

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

Explore 40 years of PCR history, from Kary Mullis’s invention story to the rise of digital PCR and how it revolutionized ...