For the first time, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers have studied how work, volunteering and leisure activities affect brain health in older adults from diverse backgrounds, while also ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes. A gene is a basic unit of heredity, the means by which traits get passed from one generation to the next, and genetics is the study ...

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it’s usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...

Scientists have recently leveraged the massive amount of human health and genetic data in the UK Biobank to learn more about how small variations in the sequences of genes are related to metabolic ...