A new Nature study suggests DNA mutations in immune cells may drive autoimmune diseases by removing immune system brakes, ...

For decades, the standard explanation for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis has rested on two pillars: inherited ...

Diseases like cancer or neurodegeneration are known to arise from genetic misfires. But treating such complex conditions hasn ...

As we age, our cells accumulate genetic changes—mutations—some of which open the door to cancer. Scientists call these ...

A seminal study from researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and their collaborators in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and Iceland has uncovered a new genetic ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

Mutations in a protein called KRAS fuel some of the most lethal cancers. Designing drugs to disable KRAS has proved ...

Can zebrafish help find autism treatments? Scientists used pharmaco-behavioral profiling to identify FDA-approved drugs, like ...

A new platform for studying mtDNA mutations implicated in human disease could help accelerate treatments for mitochondrial ...

A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that a specific gene mutation prevents patients with ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — There is a rare gene mutation linked to sudden cardiac death and heart failure called phospholamban (PLN). It may not be very common worldwide, but likely more so in West Michigan ...