Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited neurological disorder that progressively affects movement, cognition and mental health due to a genetic mutation ...

People from the Outer Hebrides and north-west Ireland have the highest risk of developing a genetic disease that causes a dangerous build-up of iron in the body, a study published in the journal ...

Tongue cancer isnt only linked to tobacco. Factors like heavy alcohol use, HPV infection, poor oral hygiene, poor diet, ...

Oral presentation provides additional scientific rationale on Krabbe disease, one of four LSDs in the Phase 2 SOTERIA basket trial designed to evaluate the safety and clinical activity of lead drug ...

People from the Outer Hebrides and north-west Ireland have the highest risk of developing a genetic disease that causes a dangerous build-up of iron in the body, a study suggests. The study marks the ...

Anne Campbell says being diagnosed with a genetic disease in her 80s came as a relief.

Using an aging clock, researchers from the University of Cologne have used the Caenorhabditis elegans model organism to demonstrate that nerve cells age differently. They identified both the causes of ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

The DGIST Center for Synapse Diversity and Specificity has identified MDGA2 as a novel causative gene for developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE), a rare and intractable neurological disorder ...

Australian researchers have uncovered a crucial new mechanism that helps explain how the heart's major blood vessels form during early development, and how disruptions to this process can lead to ...

DNA's iconic double helix does more than "just" store genetic information. Under certain conditions it can temporarily fold into unusual shapes. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have now shown ...

The United States government has stopped minting pennies, leading to a surge in interest in coin collecting as both a hobby ...