Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Some DNA damage evades repair for years, causing repeated mutations during cell division, increasing cancer risk, especially ...

The test wouldn’t be any more invasive than screening for a single gene—all the company needed was an embryo biopsy. The ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that ...

Scientists uncover how a genetic mutation linked to Huntington's disease stays harmless for years before expanding and causing cell death. The study discovers that DNA repeats must exceed 150 CAGs to ...

New genetic research shows why some people develop deadly Huntington's disease earlier than others. The findings could lead ...

The NHS in England has initiated a genetic testing programme that has had a remarkable uptake in its first year ...

A new resource from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) provides evidence-based guidance on assessing and testing for inherited genetic mutations linked with increased cancer risk.

A major driver of the bone cancer osteosarcoma has been discovered by researchers from UCL, EMBL EBI and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, providing insights that could help to predict cancer ...

But Huntington’s second, self-preserving, oddity is that unlike most genetic disorders it rarely manifests until well into ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate ...