Abu Dhabi Global Health Week, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday, will showcase many innovations in personalised medicine, in which health care is precisely tailored to the patient.Central to this is ...

Calvin Campbell lost all the flesh on his legs and was paralysed for months because of an agonising disease that's the fastest growing genetic condition in the UK ...

Sickle cell disease, characterised by the abnormal sickle shape of red blood cells instead of the typical round form, is the UK's most rapidly expanding genetic disorder. This deformation causes ...

Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better understand the genetic diversity of wildlife — and in the long run, could be ...

Two people within the same Oregon county have died of a rare brain disorder that causes dementia-like symptoms without a ...

A man with a rare genetic condition wants to name his disorder ‘Ligma’ after being approached by the National Institute of Health.

Angelman syndrome, diagnosed in James at age 4, is a rare genetic disorder that impacts intellectual development, motor skills, and communication abilities. For Colin and his ex-wife, Kim Bordenave, ...

A team of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) have discovered that a unique trio of medications could hold ...

A new multicenter study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with the Clinical ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a single genetic mutation in the BCL11B gene causes both immune dysfunction and brain development issues.

A 30-year twin study finds that moderate physical activity reduces mortality, but higher levels offer no extra benefit — and ...

A longstanding mystery in Parkinson's disease research has been why some individuals carrying pathogenic variants that increase their risk of PD go on to develop the disease, while others who also ...