For some people with a high risk of Alzheimer's who received a drug called gantenerumab for eight years, their risk of ...

For the first time, scientists say, they have evidence that using a biologic drug to remove sticky beta amyloid plaques from ...

As many as one in 3,000 people could be carrying a faulty gene that significantly increases their risk of a punctured lung, according to new estimates. Previous estimates had put this risk closer to ...

A gene once believed to be extremely rare may actually be surprisingly common—and capable of quietly raising the risk of ...

A landmark review in Nature Reviews Genetics dissects the rare and common genetic variants that shape human height. The paper ...

Scientists have linked several gene mutations to a higher diabetes risk. Not everyone who carries a mutation will get diabetes. However, many people with diabetes do have one or more of these ...

Giving blood regularly may not just be saving the lives of other people, it could also be improving your own blood's health at a genetic level, according to a new study.

The study is published March 19 in The Lancet Neurology. The international study involved 73 people with rare, inherited genetic mutations that cause the overproduction of amyloid in the brain ...

A genetic mutation of the H5N1 bird flu virus — a ... and a press release from the state said the people who interacted with the infected cats were asymptomatic. That Feb. 28 release said ...

Hormone receptor (HR)-positive HER2-negative advanced breast cancer is incurable and the aim of treatment is to delay it getting worse and extend how long people live. If the cancer has alterations in ...