A new study by researchers at King's College London has split schizophrenia risk into two genetically distinct pathways. One ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain disorders known as SYNGAP1-related disorders, or SRDs. Researchers were able ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...

About 1 in 4 people suffer from an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. These include panic disorder with sudden, severe anxiety attacks; generalized anxiety disorder, in which sufferers ...

"It's a slow-moving train wreck," Mike Graglia says about his 12-year-old son Tony's rare genetic disease with no cure. Caused by a tiny fluke of nature—a mutation in a gene known as a SYNGAP1—the non ...

Advances in DNA sequencing have revealed something surprising—not everyone with the same genetic change develops the same ...

For patients with rare and devastating neurological disorders, treatment options can seem few and far between. However, gene therapy research, led by Dr. Russell Lonser and Dr. Brad Elder, is hoping ...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer ...

Genetic testing can help doctors diagnose some neurological disorders, such as Huntington’s disease. It can also provide insights into a person’s risk of future health conditions. Genetic testing ...

Henry Ford Health has treated the first Michigan patient outside clinical trials with Roctavian, the newly approved gene ...

Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers can show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do there.