Motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), share physical ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas ...

A University of Missouri-led discovery could pave the way for improved diagnosis and treatment of unexplained movement ...

When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she ...

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown ...

New research reveals how complex interactions between genetic variants can explain different outcomes in disorders like ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

Researchers announce breakthrough results for AMT-130, the first disease-modifying treatment for Huntington's disease, with ...

Liver cells are indispensable for research—for drug testing, to better understand diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, or liver cancer and for development of future cell therapies.

The genetic analysis of a blood sample could become a tool for the early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, according to an exploratory study led by researchers from the Miguel Hernández University of ...

UC San Diego researchers have settled a decades-long debate surrounding the role of the first Crohn's disease gene to be ...

People with certain forms of the MC4R gene have lower cholesterol levels than do other individuals with a high body-mass ...