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.

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 ...

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 ...

A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Brandi Muhle was 9 years old when her 35-year-old mother, an Omaha police officer and a marathon runner, was first diagnosed ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

PanCAN Chief Scientific & Medical Officer Dr. Anna Berkenblit offers insight into the new NCCN guidelines, discusses the new ...

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.