A sweeping new study of psychiatric and genetic records has the potential to change treatment for millions of psychiatric patients.

More people are turning to genetic counseling to understand their DNA and assess their risk for certain diseases. As part of ...

Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

A massive global genetics study is reshaping how we understand mental illness—and why diagnoses so often pile up. By ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole story; you have a say in what they do.

An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

Genetic variants can take many different forms. For example, a single letter of the DNA alphabet might be miscopied, like a typo; or whole words, sentences or even chapters can be deleted or inserted ...

This color-coded graphic shows different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted by one of the genetic tools developed by scientists at the Allen Institute and other institutions.