Jaime Bortz, 39, is losing her memory to dementia. Her mom, now a full-time carer, is foreshadowing the burden many families will experience as dementia cases rise.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Mirum Pharmaceuticals' genetic disorder drug on Friday, making it the first ...

Researchers from the Mitochondrial Medicine Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have better characterized a spectrum of what were classically considered discrete mitochondrial DNA ...

Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have ...

For many Filipinos, receiving a medical diagnosis is supposed to provide clarity. But for those with rare diseases, it often ...

Thanks to the growing field of epigenetics, we're learning more about the interplay of genetic inheritance and environment in ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have found a direct link between a genetic mutation and schizophrenia. The ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with ...

Animal models are widely used in oncology to study the biochemical and physiological processes of the occurrence and development of cancer.