Cancer researchers are making strides in efforts to use genetic profiling to develop a more precise understanding of the ...

A major breakthrough could help save the world’s bananas from a devastating disease. Scientists have discovered the exact genetic region in a wild banana that provides resistance to Fusarium wilt ...

Propionic Acidemia is a rare genetic disorder where the body cannot process certain fats and proteins This causes toxic acid buildup in the liver which can cause life-threatening complications ...

Henry Ford Health has treated the first Michigan patient outside clinical trials with Roctavian, the newly approved gene therapy for severe hemophilia A.

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

In humans, chronic high blood pressure forces the heart to work too hard. The muscle of the left ventricle thickens in defense, a condition called hypertrophy. Eventually, this leads to fibrosis, ...

At the moment, publicly funded genetic testing is available only to people with a family history of certain conditions. The other option, going with a private company such as i-screen for a ...

Fast functional testing of genetic variants, from newborn genomes to disease models like zebrafish, is transforming ambiguous DNA findings into confident, real‑time treatment decisions.

The patient, who is in his 30s, got the one-time intravenous infusion at the Infusion and Chemotherapy Treatment Center at Henry Ford Cancer-Detroit.

Utah's Newborn Screening Program finds 45 genetic disorders shortly after a baby is born. New conditions are added to the list as screening tests and treatments become available. Hunter syndrome, a ...

Joshua Resnikoff explains why health insurance isn’t always beneficial to families suffering from genetic diseases and outlines how earlier intervention could realign accountability and care ...