Accumulation of clots causes some of the most severe symptoms of sickle cell disease, including strokes, kidney failure, ...

The mum and dad of a baby with a genetic disease so rare it has no name have vowed to keep fighting for him after the ...

Brugada syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that causes heart arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. “Most kids that go through that, unfortunately, don’t survive,” says Harma Turbendian ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still carry the genetic fingerprint ... polycystic ovary syndrome that affect ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over ... scientific director for the Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Foundation in San Diego, a nonprofit that supports ...

Genes play a role in our likelihood of developing depression, and one of the most extensive studies of its kind has now been able to link 293 previously unknown genetic variations to the devastating ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to ... including fragile X syndrome and myotonic dystrophy, are caused by expansions of DNA repeats ...