A new online dating site catering to sophisticated professionals called Singldout.com offers users the opportunity to submit their DNA to bolster thei...
Genealogy is a fun pastime for many people throughout the world. Tracking down ancestral information and filling out family trees is a way for many to...
A large portion of the human population knows the fear of math, that stomach-rumbling anxiety encountered when numbers blur into a jumble as the only ...
Researchers with the U.S. National Institutes of health today announced the discovery of a new genetic disorder. The disease is known to affect young ...
A new study published today in the journal Cell shows that researchers may have isolated a genetic sequence that promotes both sun sensitivity and fre...
The causes of mental illnesses are often obscured in a cloud of of environmental, genetic, and personal factors. Now, one study has uncovered a framew...
Alcoholism and eating disorders have both been found to have a genetic component for those at risk. Now, a new study has shown that these diseases may...
A new study has shown that 71% of melanoma tumors have two specific mutations. The mutations were found in an area of the cancer genome where cancer-r...
A new study published this month in the journal Human Gene Therapy has shown that a modified protein from the HIV virus itself could someday be used t...
At risk of sounding like a total nutjob, I want to explore some interesting technologies that are developing that could one day have an impact on how ...
A study published this week in the journal Nature shows that some types breast cancers are genetically similar to ovarian tumors. Basal-like breast tu...
Mutant Mosquito: The name itself injects fear into my heart. For whatever reason, whether it be genetics or an old gypsy curse, I attract mosquitoes l...
People with fair skin and red hair get their distinctive looks from a mutation in the gene that codes for the protein melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R). ...