And in an account on ew.com Bailey explained that now he’s an “ambulatory wheelchair user.” Although he can stay on his feet ...

A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

Tiffany Fransen, diagnosed with Friedreich's ataxia, faces challenges from this rare disease. The genetic disorder affects ...

A new study challenges what's long been assumed about genetic variants thought to always cause inherited blindness.

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

When several people in a family develop gastrointestinal (GI) cancers, genetic factors may be responsible. Many of these factors are not currently known. Hereditary cancer syndromes are unusual, but ...

Noonan syndrome is a hereditary condition that occurs when a person inherits a certain genetic mutation from a parent. A genetic mutation may also occur at conception due to an irregularity in the egg ...

The parents of 7-week-old Dhruvan Gopi were warned he might not survive the night as specialists converged around his crib at ...

Amid news of the splashy $4.8 billion Amicus buy, BioMarin has slipped in the discontinuation of a genetic liver disease ...

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical said on Monday that late-stage studies showed its drug for a type of genetic bone disease failed to ...