Eric Dane died after battling ALS. Here’s what to know about ALS, the progressive neurological disease that affects nerve ...

Scientists have developed a new technology called base editing that allows them to rewrite specific DNA letters without ...

The study, published in Nature Communications, used family studies and genetically engineered mice to understand how gene defects contribute to disease.

ALS affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Its name is derived from Greek and refers to a wasting away of the ...

A team of researchers led by Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has been awarded an up to two-year $8.7 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for ...

In the United States, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among women. In Texas, more than 22,000 women were ...

Cancer researchers are making strides in efforts to use genetic profiling to develop a more precise understanding of the ...

Henry Ford Health has treated the first Michigan patient outside clinical trials with Roctavian, the newly approved gene ...

Machado-Joseph disease causes sufferers to struggle with speech and movement as they lose control of their bodies.

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, ...