Scientists have corrected gene mutations in mice causing an ultra-rare disease by editing DNA directly in the brain with a ...

By the time they are a few months old, infants born with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) begin experiencing ...

Approximately one in 5,000 children is born with mitochondrial mutations each year. Defective mitochondria "leave the body ...

A groundbreaking IVF trial has raised hope that women with genetic mutations in their own DNA could one day have children ...

Scientists at Newcastle University used a new IVF technique that combines a mother’s egg and father’s sperm with a second egg ...

From avian influenza to Zika virus, more than 200 modern diseases are classified as zoonoses—those that can spread to humans ...

Using gene therapy to treat hereditary deafness is safe and effective in both children and adults, according to new findings ...

A cohort of eight babies at risk of inheriting mitochondrial disease were born without complications after British scientists ...

Mutations in noncoding DNA become functional in some cancer-driving genes These regions of the gene alter the abundance of mRNA and the proteins it instructs the cell to make ...

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