Every few months for the past three years, Jeff Vierstra has been receiving infusions in his spine that target and disable a mutated gene that made it likely he would develop ALS.

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

The PLN gene mutation causes heart failure and sudden cardiac death. Experts say West Michigan's Dutch community could be ...

Māori families with a mutation for aggressive gastric cancer have had their stomachs preemptively removed. How do you live ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism by which inherited calcium ...

Carbone called BAP1 a “paradox” because of its seeming ability to both promote and slow cancer, depending on the ...

In adults, damage to myelin is a hallmark of MS. In this condition, the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys the ...

Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different genetic paths. A new study shows that these differences can sometimes be traced ...

A rare genetic mutation never seen before protected a man with an inherited form of Alzheimer’s from developing the disease for decades. But some researchers are cautious about concluding too much ...

Maureen Sideris, seated, with her sister Marion, receiving the 8th of 9 immunotherapy infusions during successful treatment for early-stage gastroesophageal junction cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering ...