Genetic treatments could be the key to unlocking some rare diseases. But bringing these medicines to patients involves ...

Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA ...

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine published a report that concludes preimplantation genetic testing for ...

A large genetic study shows that many people carry DNA sequences that slowly expand as they get older. Common genetic ...

An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Blood cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. Like most ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — A new study from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) shows 14 psychiatric disorders share genetic roots, which can explain why some people have multiple diagnoses. The study, ...

Adolf Hitler most likely suffered from the genetic condition Kallmann Syndrome that can manifest itself in undescended testicles and a micropenis, researchers and documentary makers said Thursday, ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the Centre for Precision Psychiatry at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have discovered extensive genetic links between neurological ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

Photo courtesy of LINDSTROM FAMILY Shane and Alyssa Lindstrom watch their eight-month-old daughter, Brielle, as she lies in bed at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital in Hershey. HERSHEY — The ...