Smoking remains the leading cause of lung cancer. But a growing number of people who have never smoked are now being ...

When people think about high cholesterol, they often blame unhealthy food, lack of exercise, or being overweight. While these are important risk factors, they are not the whole story. Genetics can ...

Lamia Wahba is studying how information outside the genetic code can pass between generations and what that means for evolution and disease. When we think about genetic inheritance, we usually leap to ...

A new study has provided new insights into the the genetic overlap among some psychiatric disorders, and can help explain why it’s not uncommon for several of these disorders to arise in the same ...