Brain scans of people taken while they performed various tasks — and even did nothing — accurately predicted whether they were politically conservative or liberal, according to the largest...

How does the media’s portrayal of tobacco and e-cigarette use affect whether young adults decide to smoke? That’s the overarching question two recent studies from Penn’s Annenberg School...

A 28-patient phase 1 gene therapy clinical trial for the degenerative retinal disease Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) found no significant safety concerns; however, treatment failed to improve...

The first study to comprehensively examine how young people’s health behaviors changed over a two-year period encompassing the COVID-19 pandemic finds both pros and cons. Australian teens had overall...

The most common mutation in the human genome is the C>T mutation, which causes half of all genetic diseases resulting from point mutations. For example, the one causing Hutchinson-Gilford progeria...

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There’s nothing more unfair than getting to your mid-20s or 30s and finding that you still get travel sick. If you’ve tried those little wrist bands, tablets and staring into the distance, writer and...

It happens every year, especially in winter. A virus saunters into your wide-open respiratory tract, worms its way into lung cells, and, next thing you know, you're lying in bed with a fever, aches,...

New research has uncovered how genetic changes that accumulate slowly in blood stem cells throughout life are likely to be responsible for the dramatic change in blood production after the age of 70. The...