Marek's disease can be pervasive in chicken houses. Chickens infected by this highly contagious viral disease often develop ...

Base editing corrected a mutation that causes macular degeneration, highlighting the potential of gene therapy to treat ...

Research shows experimental anti-amyloid drug reduced cognitive symptom risk by 50% in people with rare genetic mutations ...

The body's cells respond to stress—toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults—by pausing normal functions to focus on ...

This means that inheriting one bad gene from one parent may lead to an increased chance of disease. If one of your parents has an autosomal dominant gene mutation, there’s a 50% chance you’ll ...

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AD) is a genetic condition caused by inherited mutations in SERPINA1, that can cause lung and liver disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and ...

Raziel Green, 52, an active runner and mother of two, was diagnosed with a rare form of ALS in 2017. Since starting a ...

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common birth defects, but the full extent of its genetic underpinnings has ...

For some people with a high risk of Alzheimer's who received a drug called gantenerumab for eight years, their risk of ...

P rince Frederik of Luxembourg, the youngest son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Princess Julie of Nassau, died in Paris at age 22 on March 1—a day after Rare Disease Day—of a rare genetic disease ...