What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes. A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study ...

Is fertility genetic? We talked to two gynecologists about the factors that truly do (and do not) affect fertility when it comes to your genes. As an early 30-something, I recently started noticing a ...

When my middle school class read Tuck Everlasting, the novel about a girl who befriends a family who drank from a magical stream and gained eternal life, I was conflicted. The moral of the story was ...

As more people start to opt for genetic carrier testing ahead of conception, doctors and parents-to-be are facing difficult ...

Remember 23andMe? The company that gave customers saliva-based DNA testing kits to learn about their ancestry? Founded in 2006, the company also conducted health research and drug development. But it ...

“The eyes are the window to the soul,” notes a timeless quote. And while your eyes also bring the world your way, the origins of eye color are fascinating and even mysterious. To help lay out the ...

Researchers have introduced an algorithm based on deep learning that can predict the effects of rare genetic variants. The method allows persons with high risk of disease to be distinguished more ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who ...

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.