When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...

Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...

Three-ways are just better. Well, sometimes. A landmark study published by the New England Journal of Medicine reveals parents can avoid passing genetic problems onto their babies using what’s called ...

KJ Muldoon wasn’t supposed to make it to his first birthday. He was born in August 2024 with carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a genetic disorder that afflicts about 1 in 1.3 million ...

Do you want to get the most complete data possible on your infant’s genetic makeup—a sequence of the whole genome? The big plus is information that can help you identify a childhood illness and even ...

In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated the role of genetics in the phenotypic association between screen time and psychiatric problems using a large ...