The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Abeona Therapeutics' gene therapy for a rare skin disorder on Tuesday.

Millions of people around the world live with rare diseases, most of them caused by a misstep in their genes. Some conditions ...

Many diseases are caused by a missing or defective copy of a single gene. For decades, scientists have been working on gene ...

Few cancers are passed from parent to child, but genetic testing can help identify people at higher risk. In Sidney Raskind's ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

These types of mistakes are often described as “never events,” a term first coined in 2002 to refer to preventable medical ...

Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder, is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people communicate, behave ...

Brenan Cullimore had a rare genetic condition, Brugada syndrome, that led to cardiac arrest. His wife wants to raise ...