Study by Professor Idit Maya and her team has "significant implications, especially for Jews in Israel and the Diaspora."The ...

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Rabin Medical Center researcher says current standard for testing hereditary disease risk doesn’t account for Jews and other minorities who have a high degree of genetic similarity ...

The "Deli is in my DNA" tour visits campuses with the food truck, along with nonprofit's on-site screenings for genetic ...

Bloom Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder causing growth delays, immune deficiencies, and increased cancer risk.

Rather than using a rigid, one-size-fits-all global cutoff, the new model allows for a personalized “true risk threshold.” ...

A textile artist living with cancer searches for her roots in Female, Ashkenazi With a Sewing Machine at Arts Judaica.

Researchers used whole-genome sequencing from diverse populations to identify 156 variants, including 133 novel ones, linked ...

Then we have Native Americans. For centuries, even as I grew up in the United States in the 1960s, a belief persisted that ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have successfully reduced the severity of late-onset Tay-Sachs (LOTS) ...

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used gene editing to fix the mutation that causes a form of the rare Tay-Sachs disease in mice, sparking hope that the approach could ...

Ariana DeBose's mother Gina Michelle DeBose died Sunday morning "due to complications with stage 3 ovarian cancer," the ...