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

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

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

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

Worryingly low levels of genetic diversity make Scotland’s red squirrels especially vulnerable to disease, a study has shown.

A groundbreaking study has identified how previously mysterious mutations in non-coding DNA contribute to kidney disease, ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

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

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 ...

A surprising new study suggests that COVID-19 may not have originated from bats or pangolins, but rather from a rare fusion ...

Less than a month after researchers unveiled that a “ticking DNA clock” is behind Huntington’s disease (HD), scientists have ...

Using CRISPR technology, scientists uncovered genes that control C-A-G genetic stumbles in Huntington's disease ...