People could take a genetic test to gauge their future risk of disease without worrying their life insurers would penalise them.

A number of stocks jumped in the afternoon session after comments from a key Federal Reserve official bolstered hopes for an ...

The probability of your exact existence is estimated at 1 in 400 quadrillion, tracing back through billions of years of ...

A landmark study can now calculate a person's lifelong risk of memory decline, finding that Alzheimer's biological processes ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

Predictive indicators for whether a baby will be vulnerable to certain diseases after birth, as well as their future height, ...

This valuable study investigates how perceptual and semantic features of maternal behavior adapt to infants' attention during naturalistic play, providing new insights into the bidirectional and ...

People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life ...

Peter Gratton, Ph.D., is a New Orleans-based editor and professor with over 20 years of experience in investing, risk management, and public policy. Peter began covering markets at Multex (Reuters) ...

To biomedical researchers, this is the 'genome era'. Advances in genetics and genomics such as the sequence of the human genome, the human haplotype map, open access databases, cheaper genotyping and ...