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

Denisovans were a type of ancient human that for a long time were known only from their DNA and teeth. But recent fossil findings and analysis is now revealing what these people looked like and that ...

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, ...

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 ...