An infant with a fatal genetic disease has survived past the age of 2 with no signs of the condition, thanks to treatment started in the womb.

A 75-year-old man with a genetic predisposition for Alzheimer’s has yet to show signs of the disease. Could this offer insights on new preventive and therapeutic avenues?

A man who should have developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease due to a genetic mutation is still symptom-free in his 70s.

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Only around two percent of the human genome codes for proteins, and while those proteins carry out many important functions ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a debilitating genetic condition that’s usually fatal by a few years of age. But an ...

Scientists discovered that DNA mutations influence aging by altering epigenetic changes and biological clocks.

When the monkeys were single-celled embryos, scientists had used CRISPR editing tools to silence, or “knock out”, a gene that ...

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An FDA-approved osteoporosis treatment might nudge a mutated protein back into shape and improve heart function, according to ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long ...

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...