Improving access to genetic testing and counseling for the more than 30 million Americans who are living with a rare disease could improve research and ultimately patient outcomes, according to a ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic is partnering with a California-based firm to recruit 100,000 patients to participate in genetic testing to discover possible health problems and help develop a research ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic released a new DNA product with Helix, a personal genomics company, called “Mayo Clinic GeneGuide.” The DNA-powered product provides healthy individuals with genetic ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising gene-editing therapy that directly corrects a genetic mutation responsible for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the most common ...

Existing screening protocols in place are failing to identify patients who might be carriers of a genetic mutation that is linked to certain cancers, according to Mayo Clinic researchers. Both ...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — A rare cause of hereditary cognitive decline known as CSF1R-Related Disorder (CSF1R-RD) gets its name from mutations in the CSF1R gene, discovered by Mayo Clinic. Memory loss ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: It seems like no matter what I do, I can’t lose weight. Most of my family members struggle with their weight too. Do our genetics play a part in this? ANSWER: It’s important to ...

Dear Mayo Clinic: My grandmother and mother, as well as an aunt and a cousin, have had breast cancer. Another cousin was diagnosed with colon cancer recently. It has been suggested that I undergo ...

Researchers at Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic have designed a new tool for identifying protein function from genetic code after successfully switching individual genes off and on in zebrafish, ...