Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on ...

Human egg cells are often prone to chromosomal errors. As women age, the error rate increases sharply — and can contribute to infertility, pregnancy loss, and ...

In September, Trump and the FDA commissioner announced the drug was under review to benefit patients with autism. The FDA didn't find evidence of that.

The FDA proposes new rules allowing mutation-specific gene therapies to qualify for approval despite extremely small patient ...

Rare Chromosome Awareness Day, celebrated in June, is an opportunity to increase public knowledge about rare chromosome and gene disorders. These conditions can lead to various physical, developmental ...

If you haven’t heard of the genetic disorder Heterotaxy, a new children’s book released by a Connecticut teacher and her ...

At 2 1/2, Kellan Cyr is as verbal as some of his preschool classmates. But when he was a baby, Michelle Cyr worried her son might never talk. Predictions that Kellan would be developmentally disabled ...

This is the second volume of our previous collection, linked here. Mental health disorders and physical diseases often co-occur, and growing evidence ...

Although mental disorders have multifactorial causes, genetics can explain some of them, yet this field remains largely unexplored in terms of guiding diagnoses and treatments. In the largest study of ...