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 ...
The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.
A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent PIGA-CDG, a rare but serious seizure disorder. The findings could ultimately lead ...
An international team of geneticists, public health specialists and environmental scientists from Greenland, Denmark and ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has questioned why autism rates have been rising over the last several years. Experts say he's missing nuance in these conversations.
February is Rare Disease Month, an annual effort to highlight the challenges families can face while navigating rare ...
Explore the genetic findings in 527 rare bleeding disorder cases, presented at EAHAD 2024, shedding light on novel variants.
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a promising new approach that could be used to treat a rare and ...
Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...
From understanding hereditary diseases to predicting drug responses, sequencing helps researchers uncover the subtle language ...
A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease ...