An Ice Age double burial in Italy has yielded a stunning genetic revelation. DNA from a mother and daughter who lived over 12,000 years ago shows that the younger had a rare inherited growth disorder, ...

Rokhaya Ndiaye Diallo, is raising the alarm over the financial burden of diagnosing and treating rare diseases in Senegal and is calling for a dedicated national plan.The diagnosis and management of r ...

Scientists have found that a special component in some people's blood provides them with natural protection against malaria. A recent study has demonstrated that a genetic variant named rs112233623-T ...

Scientists at Gladstone Institutes have flipped the traditional approach to finding potential treatments for deadly diseases.

For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...

Genes are short sections of DNA that determine an animal’s traits—everything from coat color and claw strength to body shape ...

Rare disease day is observed annually on the last day of February to spread awareness on certain conditions that can impact on patients lives.

At its January meeting, the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive recommendation for the marketing authorization of Kygevvi ...

A panel of physicians, biotech leaders and patient advocates took aim at the FDA during a Senate hearing Thursday on how the ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a new proposal Monday for flexible drug approval pathway treatments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved actress Catherine O’Hara has died at the age of 71. O'Hara's cause of death remains unclear, however, the actress once ...

By Tarun Sai Lomte A new AI-driven diagnostic framework combines clinical, genetic, and phenotypic data to help shorten the ...