Men carrying two copies of a common genetic variant face double the risk of dementia, according to new findings from the ASPREE trial. New research has uncovered that men who carry a common genetic ...

A 5-year-old boy from Center City has faced rare odds since birth and now this warrior is in a real life race to rewrite his story.

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

Marfan syndrome is a rare genetic disorder of the connective tissue, affecting the skeleton, lungs, eyes, heart and blood vessels. The condition is caused by a defect in the gene that tells the body ...

In medical breakthrough, a baby diagnosed with rare genetic disorder is thriving after customized CRISPR gene editing therapy ...

A couple whose sons were both born with an extremely rare genetic disorder have met the two donors who saved their boys' lives. Kate Greenstock, 41, and her partner James Reeve, 44, from Margate ...

Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid, thus preventing damage that begins in utero. A UC San Francisco-led ...

15q11-q13 microduplication syndrome, a genetic disorder caused by duplications in the 15q11-q13 region, has been associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, research on chromosome 15 ...

A baby in the US is among the first people with a rare genetic disorder to be treated with CRISPR, a customised gene-editing therapy that allows scientists to edit DNA. The baby, known as KJ ...

A nine-month-old baby in the US, suffering from a rare genetic disorder, was successfully treated with personalised CRISPR gene editing therapy. According to a report from the Children’s Hospital of ...

A BABY has had his DNA rewritten to treat his a deadly genetic disorder in a world first. Little KJ Muldoon, now 15 months old, was diagnosed with an ultra rare disease just days after his birth ...

Doctors in the United States have become the first to treat a baby using a customised gene-editing therapy, following the diagnosis of a rare and life-threatening genetic disorder that typically ...