US Diagnostics Center reports that a growing number of families are using at-home DNA test kits to confirm biological ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company with a long history of large-scale genetics research, plans to buy DNA testing firm 23andMe out of bankruptcy, announcing Monday it was named the ...

If at least two of your close family members have had a brain aneurysm, genetic testing may help identify if you’re at risk. A brain aneurysm is a bulge in one of your brain’s blood vessels. The flow ...

After a cancer diagnosis, patients often have many questions, not only about their treatment but also about what the ...

When it came time to start a family, Sarah Elizabeth Orlando, 33, knew she would go about it differently. Before she was born, an in-utero amniocentesis had confirmed she carried the gene for fragile ...

Doctors and patients are gaining an edge in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease by catching early warning signs with new screening methods.

Important uses for genealogy fall into two broad categories — ethnicity and relationships among individuals. Over the next ...

Seniors across the country are being targeted by a growing Medicare scam that starts with a simple phone call.

Among serious illnesses the genetic screening could detect is retinoblastoma, a rare and highly curable cancer that develops ...