If you haven’t heard of the genetic disorder Heterotaxy, a new children’s book released by a Connecticut teacher and her cousin is spreading awareness.

Hunter Syndrome is a rare genetic condition that can cause damage to the body and the brain. It often causes children to pass away in their teens, but a UNC Health ...

A Carlsbad family is sharing their son’s story after the 5-year-old was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder and began a ...

A new study published in Neurology, led by Queen Mary University of London, has revealed that people of South Asian, African ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have flipped the traditional approach to finding potential treatments for deadly diseases.

Researchers have uncovered shared genetic pathways that link multiple psychiatric disorders. These new findings have the potential to change the way psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and treated, ...

"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 ...

This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them markedly so – and now we finally know why. A team of researchers from Europe re-examined the ...

Many psychiatric disorders are more biologically related than previously understood, having more genetic similarities than differences, a new study shows. More research is needed to understand how ...