Question: Who can benefit from genetic counseling and testing? Answer: People with a previous cancer diagnosis or a family history of cancer or other diseases. A physician or certified genetic ...

Purpose: The aim of this article was to determine the accuracy and efficiency of World Wide Web (“Web”) resources to help nongeneticists answer four clinical questions about each of five common ...

Luckily, acclaimed science writer Carl Zimmer is here to unravel the tangled history of the science and pseudoscience surrounding heredity, in all its many forms. In his expansive, engrossing, and ...

Stories in the news about inaccurate genetic testing results leading to misdiagnosis may leave patients concerned about how accurate the testing is and how it works. So, we've asked Kristen Yu, who ...

A peer-reviewed study published in Science argues that the genetic contribution to human lifespan has been dramatically ...

Human Geneticist Dr. Neville Sanjana answers the internet’s burning questions about genetics and DNA. How are our genes related to our DNA? Does our DNA change during our lifetime? How do services ...

Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Cancer Risk and Prevention Program at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, answers listeners' questions about genetic testing. From NPR News, this is All Things ...

(UPDATED) Data from the Million Veteran Program are helping to better define the “genetic architecture” behind abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), raising hopes that genetic tests might help pinpoint ...

In the not-so-distant future, genetic testing will be a routine part of medical care. Doctors will screen for genes that influence your risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, or diabetes. They will ...

Increasing acceptance that evolution can be ‘rapid’ (or ‘contemporary’) has generated growing interest in the consequences for ecology. The genetics and genomics of these ‘eco-evolutionary dynamics’ ...

Francis S. Collins is the director of the National Institutes of Health and was formerly the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. Updated April 14, 2014, 9:09 PM Today, obtaining ...