Spurred by his grandfather’s descent into Alzheimer’s, neuroscientist Joseph Jebelli is on a mission to understand the devastating disease, writes Marjorie Brennan

New tests and treatments for prostate cancer could be on the horizon after the discovery of genetic code variants that triple the chances of developing the disease.

SCIENTISTS have identified a gene carried by more than a third of northern Europeans which puts them at greater risk of developing type-2 diabetes.

EVEN distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers said yesterday.