An $11 million gift was given in the fight against rare genetic diseases.

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the ...

Friedreich’s ataxia is a genetic disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system and brain, leading to a loss ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.

A rare genetic disorder discovered by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues can cause brain damage ...

Don and Anne Edwards have donated $11 million to Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital to establish what will be the ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

Despite rapid advances in genetic testing over recent decades, about half of people with a suspected Mendelian genetic disorder have no accurate diagnosis, while others may have to wait years for ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication ...

The exact cause of personality disorders is unclear. However, genetics, neurological differences, and environmental factors may contribute to the development of these complex mental health conditions.

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...