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 ...

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 ...

Genetics can play a role in a person's odds for Alzheimer's disease, and new research suggests differences in that risk are based on which parent had the illness. In a study of 4,400 people still ...

When Joe Fraumeni was a pre-med student in the 1950s, he accompanied a group that visited Massachusetts General Hospital to ...

Mendel's famous laws of heredity, established over a century ago, may not be as universal as once thought. A recent study on ...

Genetic factors primarily explain the link between parental and childhood BMI, with maternal obesity impacting birth weight ...

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 ...

Genetics and heredity are complex subjects, especially for children. It's not easy to explain to youngsters what DNA is, what it's used for, or the principles of recessive and dominant genes. As part ...