Researchers have developed a way to program human cells to perform calculations and make autonomous decisions, similar to how ...

While access to genetic testing has improved substantially in recent years, significant challenges remain in ensuring ...

As people continue to live longer and the survival rate of cancer diagnoses increases, researchers from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center led a multi-decade analysis studying the rates of ...

The Clinical Genetics and Genetic Counseling Service at Fred Hutch Cancer Center offers cancer risk assessment for people who are at high risk of developing cancer because of their personal history ...

After spending two decades studying how the brain works, a team of scientists prepares to focus on gene therapy treatments for brain diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Scientists who ...

Scientists who've spent decades learning how the brain works say they're now ready to start fixing it when it breaks. That's the premise of the Brain Health accelerator, a collaborative effort ...

KINGSTON — A group of Queen’s researchers is hoping to use gene therapy and new grant money to cure a handful of rare, usually fatal genetic disorders that can be diagnosed at all stages of life. Dr.

Just a few days after her daughter was born, Robyn Miller was awaken by frantic knocking at the front door. Her midwife was there with an urgent message to contact SickKids Hospital. Specialists were ...

A routine blood test at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has helped experts uncover hidden inherited cancer risk across an entire family, identifying multiple relatives who had no symptoms, no diagnosis and ...

Pancreatic cancer can remain quiet for years, developing undetected before causing symptoms that lead to a diagnosis. Even after a surgeon removes a pancreas tumor, other cells often hide and erupt ...

From rare cancers caught early to dementia foretold decades in advance, newborn genomic testing is a medical miracle - but it also raises unsettling questions Imagine you could learn from birth that ...

South San Francisco, Calif., January 30, 2026 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has approved a new funding program to accelerate therapies for rare diseases, which sets aside ...