Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

But Huntington’s second, self-preserving, oddity is that unlike most genetic disorders it rarely manifests until well into ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes ...

A common antihistamine may offer hope for patients with a rare genetic disease that can lead to severe liver damage and ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the ...

Scientists uncover how a genetic mutation linked to Huntington's disease stays harmless for years before expanding and causing cell death. The study discovers that DNA repeats must exceed 150 CAGs to ...

More Than 40 Adult Sickle Cell Disease Patients Now Enrolled in BEACON Trial of BEAM-101; Beam Expects to Dose 30 Patients ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...

The authors present new expression analysis software (TEKRABber) to help analyze expression correlations between transposable elements (TEs) and KRAB zinc finger (KRAB-ZNF) genes in experimentaly ...