The sperm of a man carrying a rare genetic mutation linked to cancer was used to conceive scores of children across Europe, ...

A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at ...

Without 8 or 9 hours of sleep, most of us end up staggering around like zombies. But according to a new study, some people ...

Researchers already had a rough idea of where in the cat genome to look: the X chromosome. That’s because the vast majority ...

Scientists have confirmed that there is something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines. In a new study, Stanford ...

Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

A rare type of genetic mutation has turned some people into "super sleepers" that can thrive on just four hours of sleep.

Any male cat with the mutation dubbed “sex-linked orange” will be entirely orange due to a random deletion of a section of ...

For example, comprehensive data about cystic ... one solution is to develop “mutation agnostic” gene therapies targeting all patients with a disease. This approach is being tried in diseases ...

Researchers have used a personalised base-editing gene therapy to successfully treat an infant with carbamoyl-phosphate ...

Examples of genetic defects that affect the sorting ... However, elucidating in detail the pathway from a specific mutation to the disease symptoms will be a more laborious and time-consuming ...