When Barbara Streisand’s beloved Coton de Tulear, Samantha, passed away in 2017, the iconic singer found a way to keep her ...

Established in October 2024 and the largest of its kind in South-east Asia, the Ocular Genetics Service (OGS) provides a centralised and specialised approach to diagnosing and managing inherited ...

Polygenic scores (PGS) are metrics used to estimate the genetic predisposition of people to developing specific mental health conditions, personality traits or diseases. In recent years ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

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Analyses reveal that the repeated DNA sequence driving the disease expands slowly over decades in certain brain cells and then rapidly lengthens and kills the cell. Findings offer new way to ...

For their definition, the group focused on adiposity, the amount of fat stored in the body, and how it affected organs and tissue. “We define clinical obesity as a chronic, systemic illness ...

A better understanding of neuropsychiatric conditions could be achieved by characterizing the genetic blueprints that regulate the development of the connections that go awry. Future research will ...

The study identifies 106 genetic variants linked to occupational status, highlighting the interplay between genetics, family environment, and childhood aspirations.

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows.

The goal of the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on the Definition and Diagnosis of Clinical Obesity was to develop an approach to this definition and diagnosis. The commission ...

Scientists have found 697 genetic variants – or small changes within a gene – linked to depression, of which almost 300 were previously unknown. A Queensland scientist described the project as ...