Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 1% of live births. Thanks to surgical advancements, infants born with ...

LIG4 syndrome is an exceptionally rare disorder caused by a genetic mutation that prevents the body from repairing damaged ...

While Zika has been reported in more than 90 countries, surprisingly little is known about what exactly drives Zika ...

Children with WSS often experience developmental delays, intellectual disabilities and smaller-than-normal head sizes or microcephaly. Investigations found that due to loss of one MLL gene ...

Scientists from a collaboration of Australian research institutions have proposed that editing multiple genetic variants in human embryos could significantly lower the likelihood of developing ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

Genetic counselling is an educational process that aims to inform and advise patients and relatives at risk of a genetic condition about the nature of the disorder, the probability of developing ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you Amber Dance, Knowable ...

Huntington’s is an incurable and fatal genetic condition that progressively affects movement, balance and cognition. It is caused by an inherited mutation in an allele of the HTT gene ...

Genes play a role in our likelihood of developing depression, and one of the most extensive studies of its kind has now been able to link 293 previously unknown genetic variations to the devastating ...