Inherited traits can be overstated, study shows
Behavioral similarities between parents and their offspring are less marked than is often suggested, a new study shows.
May 2, 2024
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Behavioral similarities between parents and their offspring are less marked than is often suggested, a new study shows.
May 2, 2024
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Recommendations from the WHO on limiting screen time for children under the age of five are almost impossible to follow, and risk causing unnecessary anxiety and stigmatization of parents of young children. This is according ...
Feb 27, 2024
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Huntsman Cancer Institute researchers discovered people with a certain polyp syndrome and their first-degree relatives are at increased risk for colorectal cancer. In addition, people with certain colon lesions are also at ...
May 24, 2022
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One in five doctors in Sweden has a parent who is also trained in medicine, more than triple the proportion for doctors born three decades earlier, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ.
Dec 16, 2020
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While there is much criticism about how the world handled the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently faced with a new, harsh reality that we need to figure out a way to resolve. In this new world, social interactions ...
Nov 11, 2020
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An American man was exonerated Wednesday for a decades-old murder he did not commit, using evidence based on DNA and a genetic family tree, the first such result using a revolutionary investigative technique.
Jul 18, 2019
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A truck driver implicated by his DNA and family tree in a double murder more than 30 years after the crime will face trial this week in the first case using a revolutionary investigative technique.
Jun 14, 2019
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About 60 percent of the U.S. population with European heritage may be identifiable from their DNA by searching consumer websites, even if they've never made their own genetic information available, a study estimates.
Oct 11, 2018
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A new Dartmouth study provides the first evidence that people use the same brain circuitry to figure out space, time and social distances.
Feb 4, 2014
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For people with a family history of adenomas (colon polyps that lead to colon cancer), up to 10 percent of colorectal cancers could be missed when current national screening guidelines are followed. Colorectal cancer is the ...
Oct 22, 2013
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