Researchers are exploring fetal gene editing to treat rare genetic disorders before they cause lasting damage.

Human cells turn genetic instructions into proteins with great precision. Critical for the translation of this information ...

As newborn screening and rapid DNA sequencing become routine, we are poised to catch and treat inherited diseases at their earliest stages. Today, we can intervene in the first days or weeks of life.

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that genetic testing can help identify people who carry inherited blood disorder traits, ...

Inherited eye diseases long believed to be inevitable for those with a certain mutated gene actually occur in just a minority of those cases, according to a recent study. Researchers made the ...

The University of Oxford and Boston Children’s Hospital, with collaboration from The Jackson Laboratory and N=1 Collaborative ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have found that in rare instances, variants responsible for SYNGAP1-related disorders—a group of disorders characterized by developmental ...

Hong Kong start-up GenEditBio is testing a one-shot gene-editing therapy for TGFBI-related corneal dystrophies, inherited ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with inherited retinal diseases may present with seemingly routine conditions. Look for comorbid ...

Certain rare genetic disorders may cause a child to develop obesity. Health experts may refer to these conditions as syndromic childhood obesity. They may affect a child’s metabolism or cause them to ...

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...