Addiction may not be solely driven by personal choice or social circumstances, as a new study by the National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of people and can be fatal if left untreated. At present, there are no ...

Heart diseases are growing at an alarming pace around the world. As per a World Health Organisation report from July 31, 2025, 19.8 million people died from cardiovascular disease just in 2022.

In a recent study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, a group of researchers identified rare predicted loss-of-function variants associated with atrial fibrillation (AF) and elucidated their ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Human Genome Sequencing Center investigated the extent to which forms of genetic variation called germline or ...

Structural variants (SVs) are alterations in the DNA sequence that involve large-scale changes, typically longer than 50 base pairs. Advances in long-read sequencing have significantly increased ...

Historic population bottlenecks left cheetahs genetically similar, increasing disease risk and threatening long-term survival ...

A new study finds just 6% of clinical trials used to approve new drugs in the U.S. reflect the country's racial and ethnic ...

Genetic tests for Alzheimer’s can detect specific genes linked to the disease. In most cases, they can’t definitively confirm or predict a diagnosis, but they can provide insight into your relative ...

The study, which performed detailed genetic analysis on a cohort of 335 primary HCM patients from South India, found that the genetic landscape of this population is markedly different from that seen ...