An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Genetic medicine has made huge progress over the past two decades. Gene therapy, gene editing, and mRNA treatments are now approved for a growing number of conditions. These approaches focus on fixing ...

Back when he was 17 and in high school, Eric Sid fainted. In the emergency room, he was diagnosed with anemia, which can cause fainting spells, and for years he thought that was the end of the story.

Sickle cell disease—the subject of a new Seminar in The Lancet—is one of the most prevalent and fastest-growing genetic disorders worldwide. Although its true prevalence is difficult to determine ...

Human cells have two copies of each chromosome, and this balance is essential for genes to be expressed in the appropriate ...

A new study published in Neurology, led by Queen Mary University of London, has revealed that people of South Asian, African ...

“Yes, doctor. My dad’s first fall was on his 65th birthday. He stood in the driveway and suddenly dropped backwards on his back. After he fell two more times, we came to the clinic.” The symptoms the ...

The fatal nervous system disease known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, killed actor Eric Dane less than a year after he ...

My journey has been a long one. I am a paediatric immunologist and principal investigator of a PID research laboratory, and ...

HCM, a hereditary condition, is a leading cause of heart-related disability in younger adults. In this progressive heart disease, the heart muscle abnormally thickens and stiffens, blocking blood flow ...