Melinda Collier told Newsweek that "you can't and shouldn't chalk up someone, let alone a child, as a lost cause." ...
Scientists from UC Davis Center for Surgical Bioengineering, the MIND Institute and UC Berkeley’s Murthy Lab are developing ...
An HIV-derived nucleoside therapy now treats rare genetic diseases by restoring mitochondrial DNA and improving muscle ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine laboratory scientists say they have developed a potential new way to treat a variety of rare genetic diseases marked by too low levels of specific cellular proteins. To boost ...
A rare form of diabetes is emerging in the very first weeks of life, reshaping how doctors think about blood sugar disorders in infants. Researchers tracking newborns on several continents are now ...
Half of all babies diagnosed with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1) deficiency die within their first week of life Getty KJ Muldoon was diagnosed with severe carbamoyl phosphate ...
For the first time, doctors have treated a baby born with a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder with a gene-editing therapy scientists tailored to specifically repair his unique mutation. The baby ...
While genetic testing may be diagnostic, ordering the tests requires physicians to consider the possibility of the illness first. Treatments Curative treatments are rare but available for diseases ...
While speaking exclusively with PEOPLE, Amber Selvey revealed there was no known family history of Alagille Syndrome before ...
The FDA has outlined a new review process for drugs and biologics designed to treat ultrarare genetic diseases that would allow a single-arm trial, plus other supportive data, to serve as pivotal ...