Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine and eight other institutions in the United States, Africa and Europe say they have ...

Affecting 1 in 500 people, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the walls of the left ventricle, the heart's ...

Nucleus Genomics claims to give couples a picture of their combined risk for passing down hundreds of conditions to their ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have demonstrated that a genetic method called "pooled prime editing" can screen ...

But don’t freak out: Only 2% of Americans have this genetic double whammy. And remember, even if you have e4, your risk ...

Scientists have found a potential new gene variant target to treat sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disorder that ...

POLG-related diseases disrupt the function of the mitochondria, or "powerhouses" of the cell — starving them of energy.

Genetics plays a crucial role in the manifestation and progression of over 6,800 rare diseases, including but not limited to, genetic disorders, rare ...

In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why? I n March 2009, ...

UCLA Health researchers say study findings uncover Huntington's disease mechanisms and pave new ways to develop treatments.

Advances in the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 over the past 15 years have yielded important new insights into ...