More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...

Two of Opus's seven gene therapy assets are in clinical trials, with additional programs expected to enter the clinic.

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Forty years ago, a postdoctoral researcher named James McGrath who would go on to spend more than three decades as a clinical geneticist and research scientist at Yale, made a discovery that advanced ...

Next-generation cancer tests are being developed here in Houston, and the HBJ pulled back the curtain on how one partnership ...

Genetics play a role in low testosterone for some men, but underlying causes vary widely. Many genes influence testosterone ...