Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the ...

Ireland has the highest rates of haemochromatosis in the world, with one in 83 people at risk of developing it and one in ...

Genetic carrier screening is conducted to determine if an asymptomatic person is a carrier for a potentially inheritable pathogenic gene.

While packing for a move, columnist Joe MacDonald marvels at the differences between his two sons' experiences with hemophilia.

Tests in 1,225 patients with the most deadly form of skin cancer reveal for the first time a genetic trait among most of ...

A Falmouth teen, Jayden Wilsey, is the first to receive gene therapy to treat sickle cell at Boston Children's Hospital.

Scientists at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, have found that gene editing using ...

KJ Muldoon's life-threatening disorder, called severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency, was treated with ...

After spending over 300 days at CHOP, KJ Muldoon has been released from the hospital after receiving personalized CRISPR gene ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

But researchers were hopeful a larger, ongoing trial will prove the approach effective. Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder caused by a genetic mutation. In the most common form -- hemophilia A -- ...

FVIII, the blood clotting protein missing in hemophilia A, adopts multiple shapes, making it more likely to be targeted by ...