From life-altering genetic conditions to promising new treatments, here's what you need to know about 7 inherited diseases ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with ...

Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University, led by Prof. Illana Gozes, examined the effects of different mutations in the ADNP protein, which is essential for normal brain development and aging, on the brain ...

A research team co-led by scientists at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that an osteoporosis drug might counter a rare genetic mutation underlying a type of heart disease.

A man in his 70s from Oklahoma could provide a key to Alzheimer's disease, as scientists are rethinking the underlying cause ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Researchers developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic ...

WashU Medicine-led trial evaluating investigational drug from Eli Lilly and Company aims to stop disease before symptoms ...

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy ...

Gene editing is already being used to treat a handful of rare genetic diseases; however, most therapies involve breaking or ...