Scientific American

How geneticists uncovered a common root of two neurological diseases

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) can have the same genetic cause, a discovery that won ...

Gene therapy targets untreatable cystic fibrosis mutation affecting about 10% of patients

Cystic fibrosis is among the most common, known and studied genetic diseases. It affects over 100,000 people worldwide and ...
Baylor College of Medicine

How a mutation in the SKD3 enzyme can cause MGCA7 disease

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 ...
News Medical

Study documents gene mutation as cause of cancer form in the liver

There is no effective treatment for the cancer form found in the liver called fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, which is mainly found among children and young people. Operation of the tumor is ...
EurekAlert!

In mice, gene editing repairs a mutation that causes rare liver disorder

Scientists have corrected an extremely rare and life-threatening genetic disease of the liver in mouse models and human ...
News Medical

ARPP21 gene mutation could be the cause of ALS

Researchers from the Neuromuscular Diseases Group and the Dementia Neurobiology Group of the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) and the Memory Unit of the Sant Pau Hospital, led by neurologist ...