Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that forms in plasma cells, white blood ...

An analysis of the genomes of nearly 6,000 Greenlandic people suggests that their Inuit ancestors rarely moved around after ...

Your genes play a huge role in what makes and shapes your entire existence. Since you inherit your genes from your parents, ...

After a genetic test, Alex Swanson learned he has hereditary hemochromatosis, a condition causing iron overload that can lead ...

It is a genetic disorder caused by inherited mutations in a person’s DNA that affect the properties of haemoglobin. Haemoglobin is made up of four proteins organised around the iron-carrying ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

A combination of human pedigree analysis and fruit fly genetics has identified a gene variant that appears to prevent ...

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of the puzzle.

Myriad Genetics develops and offers genetic tests that help assess the risk of developing disease or disease progression and guide treatment decisions across medical specialties where genetic ...