An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...

Many genetic variants linked to inherited eye disorders rarely lead to disease, meaning up to 2% of people could carry these variants without ever developing vision problems, according to a new s tudy ...

When a child inherits a genetic condition, it often means both parents unknowingly carried genetic variations that, when combined, led to the disease. Modern genetic testing now allows families to ...

Until recently, even the most advanced gene therapies could only be given after a child was born—often racing against time to prevent irreversible damage. In the first part of this series, we explored ...

Medically reviewed by Brigid Dwyer, MD Key Takeaways Huntington’s disease is a genetic condition that is inherited in an ...

Research co-led by King's College London and Sidra Medicine, Qatar, has produced the most detailed map to date of large-scale ...

Scientists discovered that aging DNA repeats expand at wildly different speeds—and in some people, the consequences can be devastating. A sweeping genetic study drawing on data from more than 900,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than 30% of people with certain genetic variants go blind, despite the faulty genes previously being thought to cause ...

KKH reports a fivefold increase in children with familial hypercholesterolaemia, a genetic disease causing early heart ...

Huntington's disease diagnosis is confirmed with a genetic test. A clinical history and medical evaluation are used to define symptom onset. Disease staging and surveillance for complications are ...

Rare diseases are medical conditions that individually affect a small proportion of people but when seen collectively, show a ...

“Science gave us a chance,” one mother said after being a part of the pioneering IVF technique that was used to prevent inherited diseases gorodenkoff/Getty Stock Image Scientists at Newcastle ...