The Endowment has created a new grant to assist New Hanover County when a disaster strikes. With temperatures dropping and families gathering for the holidays, doctors are preparing for an expected ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Cape Fear Community College (CFCC) will conduct an active shooter simulation at its downtown Wilmington campus this weekend. According to CFCC, the simulation will be held in ...

Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left unscathed in the exercise. The European Space Agency (ESA) staged the exercise at ...

Santhosh Girirajan receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, ...

A few years ago, my dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, just like his older brother and his mum before him. Slowly, his personality began to ebb away. Now, at the age of 75, his cognitive ...

Airport emergencies are not common, but if they occur it’s important for our first responders to know how to handle the situation. Cherry Capital Airport does monthly trainings but every 3 years they ...

In Destiny’s Child No Longer: Rewriting Genetic Fate, we envisioned a world where every newborn would be screened for genetic risks. We see a future in which the randomness of genetic inheritance ...

A new study from the NIH’s All of Us program is shaking up long-held assumptions by revealing that genetic ancestry rarely aligns with racial labels — and that the interplay between biology and ...

Cruise ship passengers unloading at the AJ Dock on Monday saw National Guardsmen donning hazmat suits on the front deck of a barge, but there was no cause for actual alarm. The guardsmen entered the ...

A four-day simulation of a foreign terrorist incident is set to start throughout Juneau on Sunday, with National Guard members from other states joining local emergency responders in the exercise.

Cystic fibrosis represents one of the most common inherited genetic disorders affecting people of European descent, touching the lives of approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States alone.

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a genetic mutation on the X chromosome of orange, calico and tortoiseshell ...