Purpose: The incidence of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is approximately 1 in 5,000 births, and accounts for 5–30% of all heart defects, making it one of the more common genetic conditions in the ...

Last week, Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov realized he hadn’t checked on his genetics in a while. He clicked open a dashboard created by Nucleus Genomics, a Founders Fund-backed startup that ...

It depends on what your goal is. By Dana G. Smith When Dr. Nir Barzilai met the 100-year-old Helen Reichert, she was smoking a cigarette. Dr. Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research ...

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 ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

The 2025 International Statistical Genetics Workshop will be held in Boulder, Colorado from March 3 to 7. Matthew Keller is the local host with Ben Neale and Dave Evans as the academic directors. This ...