Hooray for the Morapians! I have no idea who they are, but they’ve helped make the effect of genes on politics much clearer. I just read an article that I really like for that very reason. The ...

More than 3,000 genetic variants influence a person’s susceptibility to weight gain. That inherited risk has become even more ...

NEW YORK — Sometimes the biggest discoveries come in the smallest packages. Scientists have identified a tiny genetic change—present in nearly all living humans but absent in our closest extinct ...

Superagers -- adults 80 and older with the memory capacity of much younger people -- had a higher frequency of gene variants that protected against Alzheimer's disease and a lower frequency of genes ...

People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy genetic research has relied upon broad but surface-level methods called ...

(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers are beginning to realize that even vastly different psychiatric ...

Researchers at UCLA Health have identified a key gene that may help explain why women are more likely than men to develop a certain type of artery plaque linked to heart disease. In a study published ...

Preeclampsia, gestational hypertension, and other adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) are known predictors of worse cardiovascular health later in life, but a new mendelian randomization study suggests ...