A gene on the X chromosome revs up inflammation in the female brain, which may explain why rates of multiple sclerosis are higher in women than in men, scientists suggest. When you purchase through ...

Learn more about the gene linked to the evolutionary loss of human tails, and how, in rare cases, some people are still born ...

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

A large population-level analysis led by researchers at University College London has suggested that common variants of the ...

One gene called APOE has long been known to increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but without a specific variant most ...

Large-scale UK Biobank research suggests that variations in the APOE gene, linked to up to 90% of Alzheimer’s cases ...

Scientists have been trying to identify the exact causes of Alzheimer's disease for many years, and while we know that pathologies like tau tangles and amyloid plaques are related to the ...

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A genome-wide CRISPR study maps 331 genes essential for early brain development, identifying PEDS1 as a new ...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Humans carry genes that predispose us to atherosclerosis, the disease that causes heart attacks, because those same genes may have once helped ...

Researchers from Radboud university medical center and University of Basel have discovered new genetic causes of inherited ...

Potentially more than 90% of Alzheimer's disease cases would not occur without the contribution of a single gene (APOE), ...