Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can’t get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering arduous and exhausting. She has the most common fatal ...

Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...

For members of a large extended Colombian family, an early Alzheimer’s diagnosis is practically a grim guarantee. But new research further supports the idea that a rare genetic mutation can delay the ...

Researchers at DeepMind, one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) companies, presented a new tool that predicts whether or not genetic mutations are potentially pathogenic, a breakthrough that ...

Google DeepMind has wielded its revolutionary protein-structure-prediction AI in the hunt for genetic mutations that cause disease. A new tool based on the AlphaFold network can accurately predict ...

Around 200 children in several countries were conceived with sperm from a single donor who unknowingly carried a rare genetic mutation linked to early-onset cancers, it has been revealed. The ...

Breast cancer affects many women globally. While most cases are random, some stem from inherited genes like BRCA1 and BRCA2. A family history of breast cancer, especially at a young age, raises ...

Three months before undergoing a preventative double mastectomy, 25-year-old Meg Herrmann completed a half marathon and was the fittest she had ever been. Life insurers can legally discriminate ...

Some fungi live up to 2,500 years thanks to an internal system that eliminates harmful cells and prevents genetic mutations.