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A Quick Introduction to Precision Medicine When the Human Genome Project was completed over 10 years ago, there were expectations of finding a ‘heart disease gene’ or a ‘diabetes gene’....

Mindful Eating for Millennials Eat to live or… live to eat? A lot of us love to eat for reasons other than just survival. But like everything one loves, excess...

Mental Health Awareness: Infographic Mental health is as essential to our well-being as our physical health. However, we often tend to ignore this aspect of our health. Our experts help...

Pancreatic Cancer and BRCA: What You Need to Know A common misconception is that BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers alone. In fact, mutations...

Male Breast Cancer Yes, men can develop breast cancer too. While male breast cancer is rare — accounting for less than 1% of all breast cancer cases — it is...

World Heart Day 2018 Our experts bring you some interesting facts about the heart. Check out this infographic to get to know your heart — and what you can do...

Restless Legs Syndrome: A Restless Experience RLS stands for Restless Legs Syndrome (also known as Willis-Ekbom’s Syndrome) — a condition related to the nervous system that causes an irresistible urge...

Alzheimer's disease has significant genetic components — including APOE e4 (the strongest risk factor for late-onset AD) and causative mutations for early-onset familial AD. Genetic counselling is essential before and...

The Boss Lady of Indian Genomics, Who Dreamed of the Nobel as a Little Girl — MapmyGenome’s Anu Acharya Originally published in Outlook Business. Never one to shy from exploring,...

3 Reasons Cancer Seems to Be on the Rise — and What You Can Do About It (Part 2 of 2) Before we dive in — have you read Part...

Cancer may have been a “grave, debilitating disease” in your grandparents’ time, but sadly, today,  it has reduced to a rather common, almost a lifestyle disorder. Or so it seems....

So far, in this three part series, we have seen how one’s DNA can confer a biological advantage upon them, when it comes to sports/athletic abilities (check out part 1)....