A study led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine shows how a genetic mutation associated with Crohn's disease can worsen iron deficiency and anemia - ...

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a debilitating and progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by the loss of ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting approximately 55 million people worldwide. In a new study published in Alzheimer’s and Dementia titled, “Familial Alzheimer’s ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have recently developed a novel artificial intelligence tool that not only identifies disease-causing genetic mutations but also predicts the ...

Wounded and elderly patients are being evacuated by train from embattled east Ukraine - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA Wounded and elderly patients are being ...

Although the genetic cause of many diseases have been identified, it’s estimated that as many as 70% of patients with a rare disorder do not know what causes their disease. Millions of people live ...

Sickle cell disease is a hereditary condition, which means a person inherits it from their biological parents. The condition occurs when a person inherits two copies of the hemoglobin beta (HBB) gene ...

Now, more than two decades later, researchers homed in on a mutation in the gene zinc finger homeobox protein 3 (ZFHX3), a transcriptional regulator that seems to mess with a cell’s ability to perform ...