Researchers have uncovered a stealth survival strategy that melanoma cells use to evade targeted therapy, offering a ...

An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught ...

The new findings center on a subset of 22 participants who received amyloid-removing drugs the longest, on average eight ...

Although cystic fibrosis is a single gene mutation, there are more than 1,000 different ways the CFTR gene can mutate in ...

Huntington's disease is a rare genetic, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease, caused by CAG repeat expansions in the HTT gene, that is polymorphic on the healthy allele and contains more than ...

Adverse genetic mutations can cause harm and are due to various circumstances. "Jumping genes" are one cause of mutations, ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species--including plants, fungi, and even humans--are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called ...

In a groundbreaking advancement for families grappling with the challenges of Dravet syndrome, a rare and life-altering form ...

Adeno-associated virus (AAV)–mediated gene therapy was one of the focal points of this year's Muscular Dystrophy Association conference. Here, Barry Byrne, MD, PhD, University of Florida, speaks to ...

Most of the time, genes that lead to the disease mutate sometime during your life and aren’t an inherited problem. But in about 5% to 10% of cases, the cause is hereditary. This means that the ...

But Miss Frankenberg-Schwager's study concludes that the X-rays in mammograms are almost three times as likely to mutate genes in human cells as conventional X-rays. Generally, women have two ...