Jaime Bortz, 39, is losing her memory to dementia. Her mom, now a full-time carer, is foreshadowing the burden many families ...
Scientists discovered that DNA mutations influence aging by altering epigenetic changes and biological clocks.
A human-specific NOVA1 gene variant may have influenced the emergence of spoken language. When introduced into mice, it ...
New research shows people in specific Polynesian communities have a much higher rate of a form of Parkinson’s disease ...
OTO, is one of several early-stage gene therapies being developed to treat relatively straight-forward causes of genetic ...
Brandi Muhle was 9 years old when her 35-year-old mother, an Omaha police officer and a marathon runner, was first diagnosed ...
Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...
In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...
There's a window of time in our lives we've all passed through yet still know so little about: early gestation.
It is estimated to affect 105,000 people worldwide. There are more than 2,000 known mutations in the CFTR gene, which lead to different levels of the severity of the disease. Lentiviral vectors ...
An inhalable medicine with the potential to improve lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis, irrespective of their mutation type, is being tested in human trials in the UK and Europe.