By Sean Mowbray More than a decade ago, conservationists began working to preserve a unique population of desert pampas cats ...

Almost 50 more genes have been flagged as being linked to Alzheimer’s, along with changes in activity in crucial cells that ...

Learn how newly discovered genetic regions may help explain Alzheimer’s risk, pointing to brain immune cells, neurons, and ...

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules ...

Darwin’s Ark is recruiting more South Dakota cat owners for its Darwin’s Cats project, combining surveys and optional DNA ...

Population-based pathogenic variant testing identified breast cancer susceptibility gene carriers who would often be missed ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel the mysteries of restless legs syndrome (RLS), a poorly understood and underdiagnosed neurological disorder causing itching, crawling, and aching ...

The majority of genetic studies focus on people of European descent, which limits the understanding of how genes influence health in other populations. Now researchers at the Perelman School of ...

The largest and most diverse study to date of epilepsy's genetic factors has revealed new potential targets for treatment, both shared by and unique to different subtypes of epilepsy. The findings ...