Certain everyday household chemical supplies have been found to share links to Parkinson's Disease. How much of a connection ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

Neurogeneticists  have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain — a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

By collecting continuous data on physical and behavioral patterns, smartwatches can generate what researchers call a “digital ...

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease ...