Then, starting with a landmark publication in Cell in 1990, Harvard Medical School researchers uncovered critical insights into the genetic and molecular underpinnings of the disease. Their federally ...

Clinicians' ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

Discover how in some communities around the world, the prevalence of rare diseases is higher due to factors like cousin ...

Clinicians’ ability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases is limited by scientific uncertainty around factors contributing ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in ...

Huntington’s disease (HD) is one of those rare conditions that affects not just the patient but the entire family—medically, emotionally and genetically. This inherited brain disorder causes gradual ...

In a major step toward treating rare neurological diseases, scientists have used gene editing to correct mutations inside the ...

Researchers have found that risk for developing dementia is related to genetic risk for coronary artery disease.

GeneDx CEO Katherine Stueland explains how her company screens babies’ DNA for mutations that cause thousands of treatable ...

For centuries, doctors and scientists have agreed that germs are the underlying cause of infectious diseases. Someone coughs ...

The study of cacao genetics has provided profound insights into the domestication, diversity and disease resistance mechanisms of Theobroma cacao. Recent advances in genomic sequencing and mapping ...