You’ve likely heard people mention that they have inherited certain health conditions from their family. These are known as ...

Marfan Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that affects the body’s connective tissue, the material that supports and holds together skin, bones, blood vessels, and organs. When this tissue is ...

Fanconi anemia is an aggressive, life-threatening disorder. Most individuals living with this rare genetic condition, ...

An 11-year-old from Rowlett is set to make medical history as the first person in the world to receive treatment for NARS1.

In adults the joint pain and fatigue associated with hypermobility-type EDS can be misdiagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome, hypochondriasis, or depression. [25] Vascular-type EDS may also be ...

Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle weakness to stroke-like episodes.

It is important to identify infants of affected women as high-risk infants. Scrutinize the maternal history and, when possible, determine the specific EDS type of the mother or affected family ...

and the potential use of single-cell somatic mutations for lineage tracing, diagnostics and biomarkers. Analysis of more than 95% of each diploid human genome of a four-generation, twenty-eight ...

May 5, 2025 — Chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world's deadliest pathogen. This labeling could lead to simpler ...

Mutations may enable the coronavirus to spread faster from person to person. More infections can result in more people getting very sick and also create more opportunity for the virus to develop ...