What if childhood vaccines — particularly the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine — cause autism? Nearly three decades later, the debunked theory has gained renewed prominence in parallel with the ...

Gestational diabetes can cause a multitude of complications in the offspring, but to date, the reasons are incompletely ...

Northeastern University researchers used an original machine learning tool to predict how genetic mutations cause a rare ...

Charlotte Chilton says Conor Maynard's negative paternity tests could be explained by a rare genetic condition - so how ...

In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

It seems counterintuitive that a violent sport would bring people closer, but the students find connectivity by sharing a ...

In this Healio video, Andres Deik, MD, MSEd, FAAN, discusses a presentation about the correlation between genes and environment in the development of Parkinson’s disease.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in foodborne pathogens represents a critical and escalating global public health threat in ...

And occasionally a mother’s autoimmune disease can harm her child, such as a rare fetal heart defect that requires a lifelong ...

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...