Across the world, only a few dozen people appear to carry a genetic glitch that lets them brush off viruses that flatten everyone else. Their immune systems behave as if they are permanently on high ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A large study of European populations has uncovered seven new clusters of defective genes which may be responsible for rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and disabling disease that ...

Experimental gene therapies like AMT‑130 lower toxic huntingtin protein and significantly slow Huntington’s disease, offering ...

An international team of scientists has designed a new type of therapy to target the mutant toxic RNA that causes myotonic ...

In the radioactive forests around Chernobyl, gray wolves have done what humans cannot: they have adapted to chronic radiation ...