Excess body weight may help explain why some chronic illnesses frequently occur together, according to a study.

The study uncovers obesity's genetic links to chronic diseases, offering insights into multimorbidity and the potential for targeted health interventions.

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

A global genetics study of over 2.5 million people shows Type 2 diabetes is driven by tissue-specific biological processes ...

Catherine O'Hara passed away at the age of 71. The Home Alone and Schitt's Creek actor will always be remembered for her charismatic presence on screen.She had once dropped a bit about her health: she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking international study has uncovered striking genetic differences in how women and men experience depression, and it could help explain why women are diagnosed with the condition at ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

The “Summer I Turned Pretty” star Gavin Casalegno’s Dunkin’ ad is coming under scrutiny and sparking yet another debate over promoting certain “genetics.” In the new ad for the chain, Casalegno sits ...