Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of hereditary red blood cell disorders. Sickle cell anemia is a type of SCD that occurs when a person inherits genes containing an atypical form of hemoglobin.

Patients with CaV2.1 channelopathies face severe and often debilitating symptoms, such as seizures, migraines, tremors, and ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a form of a genetic disease known as ...

UCLA Health researchers have created a comprehensive map showing how eight different genetic mutations associated with autism spectrum disorder affect early brain development, providing new insights ...

TRENTON, N.J. - President Joe Biden said sooner or later, he expects to see the omicron variant in the United States. This message comes as public health officials at the state and federal level admit ...

NEW YORK — Close gatherings over the Thanksgiving holiday could cause an uptick in emergency room visits in New York due to a trio of respiratory illnesses that typically rise this time of year, as ...

Being a segregase, it’s the job of valosin-containing protein (VCP) to straighten out a myriad of poorly folded proteins. We can now add tau to that list. In a paper published in Science on October 1, ...

After several children died from sudden cardiac arrests, a team of doctors discovered a genetic mutation to be the cause of their fatal heart arrhythmias — a disorder of the movement of the heart that ...

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is a genetic condition where a person with XY chromosomes cannot respond to male ...

Close gatherings over the Thanksgiving holiday could cause an uptick in emergency room visits in Georgia due to a trio of respiratory illnesses. That typically rises this time of year, as well as a ...