From life-altering genetic conditions to promising new treatments, here's what you need to know about 7 inherited diseases ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a debilitating genetic condition that’s usually fatal by a few years of age. But an ...

A pregnant woman is at the center of a heated debate after her husband considered divorce over their conflicting views on ...

A study finds that lifestyle and environment influence health more than genetics. Smoking, income, and exercise shape disease ...

Batten disease is a rare genetic disorder affecting 3 in 100,000 babies in the U.S., causing neurodegeneration, seizures, ...

Gene therapy represents a paradigm shift in modern medicine, offering unprecedented opportunities to combat diseases at their ...

Blood proteins serve as crucial indicators of health and disease risk throughout development. Now, researchers at the ...

Nurture is more influential than nature when it comes to number of major diseases and premature death, according to a new study.Environmental factors are almost 10 times more important than genetic ...

Four young children have gained life-changing improvements in sight following treatment with a pioneering new genetic ...

Four young children have gained life-changing improvements in sight following treatment with a pioneering new genetic medicine through UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, with ...

Medics at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL injected healthy copies of the affected gene into the back of eye for the pioneering gene therapy. | ITV News London ...