Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 1% of live births. Thanks to surgical advancements, infants born with ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

The UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester announced Thursday it received a $35 million gift that aims to advance research to ...

February is Rare Disease Month, an annual effort to highlight the challenges families can face while navigating rare ...

Researchers find a master epigenetic switch that activates silenced genes to compensate for their missing counterparts in a ...

Four-week-old Tommy Parry is one of only 23 in the world ever to be born with the mitochondrial gene, which impairs his ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...

Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study. By creating the most complete and detailed genetic 'map' of kidney function to ...