The "new" eugenics is both a warning and an invitation to ask hard questions, to recognize repeating patterns, and to hold medicine to its highest ideals.

Finding the 'Why' Behind Genetic Risk For years, scientists have relied heavily on "genome-wide association studies," which scan the DNA of thousands of people to find statistical links between ...

SATURDAY, Nov. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal ...

The number of people living with dementia worldwide was estimated at 57 million in 2021 with nearly 10 million new cases recorded each year. In the U.S., dementia impacts more than 6 million lives, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

When Adam started kindergarten, his teacher could tell he was behind. The other kids could color inside the lines. The other kids could identify red objects. Adam could not. "He was my first child," ...

Finding patterns in genetic uncertainty: Clues for inborn errors of immunity by Jordan Shaked, Yale University edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

Genetic testing is rapidly moving genomics from a niche specialty to becoming more integrated into mainstream clinical practice. Once deployed primarily to diagnose rare and inherited conditions after ...

Whenever you get fit for golf clubs at Titleist, you’re going to hear about “peak height” a lot. That’s because the company’s fitting philosophy is directly tied to ensuring every club in the bag ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Mikel Hernaez receives funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the government of Navarra, the EU Department of Defence, the Carlos III Health Institute and the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Researchers sequenced ...