Surfactant B deficiency causes abnormalities in the lining of the lung tissues, making breathing difficult. The life expectancy without a lung transplant is about three to five months. In Kylie’s case ...

Recently, a member* of Reddit posed the question, "What’s the one random genetic trait you lucked out on?" to the good folks of r/AskReddit. Here are their top-voted wild, funny, and, frankly, envious ...

A local 7-year-old is at the forefront of many minds in the Lewisville area, as her family and community plan a fundraiser ...

In a Phase I/II trial, patients with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease will receive a treatment created using a new ...

A now ten-year-old girl from Albuquerque spent most of her early years at the hospital with symptoms that baffled physicians.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted ...

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Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and ...

New genetic research shows why some people develop deadly Huntington's disease earlier than others. The findings could lead ...

More than 500 European patients with unknown conditions have received a diagnosis through new genetic research.

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...