When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: ...
Human fertility hinges on a delicate molecular ballet that begins even before birth. UC Davis researchers have uncovered how special protein networks safeguard chromosomes as eggs and sperm form, ...
When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened ...
When a key protein regulator dials down DNA repair mechanisms, our cells accumulate more mutations, which may cause us to age faster ...
Robertsonians — commonly abbreviated as ROBs — are the stuff of genetics textbooks. First discovered in grasshoppers in 1916 ...
Kennedy Jr. promising to find the cause of autism by September. The secretary of Health and Human Services said he believed ...
Interestingly, socioeconomic status has a significant impact on longevity, and not just due to an inability to afford ...
This article was reviewed by Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD. So, you’ve been told your swimmers are lacking a little bit. If ...
Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and stuttering ...
Ahn has studied SON since the early 2000s. After the discovery of ZTTK, she co-founded the ZTTK SON-Shine Foundation in 2021 ...
In a Sept. 22 press conference that he had billed as “one of the biggest [medical] announcements … in the history of our country,” President Donald Trump touted an unproven link between autism and the ...