People who get divorced tend to have higher genetic predispositions for psychiatric disorders, even if they never develop ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

A young Ohio State fan has brought together Buckeyes and Volunteers fans alike in a heartwarming effort to support his family ...

Two new compounds may be able to treat retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. The ...

More Than 40 Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients Now Enrolled in BEACON Trial of BEAM-101; Beam Expects to Dose 30 Patients ...

I’ve lived with anxiety disorders for as long as I can remember. My sister has struggled with them too. Looking ...

It’s a rare genetic disorder that impacts a small population, and due to limited research, much remains unknown about ...

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.

New research reveals that certain cells inactivate one parent’s copy of a gene, leading to a bias in gene activity that may ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who ...