Project MinE, an international consortium co-founded by researchers at King's College London, has identified new genetic ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

Both genetics and “environmental risk factors” play roles in our longevity. A group of enterprising scientists used the UK Biobank, a biomedical database containing genetic, health, and lifestyle ...

New research establishes an identifiable genetic component to motor neuron disease for 1 in 4 people with the disease; a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients experiencing the same infection. How can two people infected by the same pathogen ...

You may have heard about Generation Study or been asked to take part. Here's what you need to know about how it works and how it could help you and your children.

A growing body of evidence suggests that a single gene, APOE, may play a far more dominant role in Alzheimer’s disease than ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health challenge that affects more than 800 million people worldwide. 1 CKD can be caused by a variety of disease processes. Many causes are difficult to ...