The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent and was ...

A recent increase in cases of the human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China has been misrepresented on social media as evidence ...

Zombie deer disease' symptoms include severe weight loss, excessive thirst and urination, appearing out of it and a lack of coordination - and experts say humans are at risk of contracting the illness ...

Researchers are closer to understanding what drives the autoimmune disorder Sj gren's disease, thanks to new discoveries about the role of calcium signaling, regulatory T cells, and interferon.

But then Morton noticed a strange ... condition known to medicine” – and there is basically nothing they can do to help. The disorder earned the nickname of being the “suicide disease ...

A patient in Louisiana who contracted a severe case of the bird flu virus H5N1 has died from the infection. This makes them ...