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

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

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

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

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

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

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...

Researchers have described the neurodegeneration that occurs in the nervous system of the bowel in Batten disease, a rare and fatal genetic condition. In their latest study, a team showed that gene ...

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

A recent study has uncovered a fascinating link between genetics and divorce risk. Researchers at Rutgers University analyzed ...

Recent findings uncover how Huntington's disease develops over time, revealing the mutation's delayed effects on brain cells.