An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per cent, and researchers are ...

An Illinois family pushed for both boys to receive the potentially life changing medical treatment after one was approved and ...

The parents of 7-week-old Dhruvan Gopi were warned he might not survive the night as specialists converged around his crib at ...

Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

For a technology that costs millions, a collaborative approach may improve efficiency and allow the science to live up to its ...

A new genome-wide mapping method finally shows how thousands of genes connect to drive disease. Biomedical researchers are working intensively to identify the genes that contribute to disease, with ...

Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of ...

Amid news of the splashy $4.8 billion Amicus buy, BioMarin has slipped in the discontinuation of a genetic liver disease ...

The study focused on inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs), a group of genetic diseases that lead to progressive vision loss ...

Malaria continues to place a substantial burden on many emerging economies, contributing to significant loss of life, ...

For decades, geneticists have known that most common illnesses are not caused by a single rogue gene but by intricate ...