People therefore have a 50% risk of inheriting it or passing on its predisposition to their children. HCM causes the heart ...

Two Utah sisters have each had their entire stomach removed as a preventive measure to spare painful, cancer-filled future ...

Huntington described the autosomal dominant inheritance pattern of this ... all affected individuals would carry the same original mutation as the founder. Over a period of more than 20 years ...

Germline mutations may be “dominant” or “recessive.” In autosomal dominant diseases, one parent has a normal copy of the gene and a mutated copy; there is a 50-50 chance a child will ...

Some clinical trials for treatments that nip Alzheimer’s disease in the bud rely on recruiting carriers of autosomal-dominant mutations who will develop Alzheimer’s disease in a predictable fashion.

Autosomal dominant single-gene diseases occur in individuals ... to potentially "cancel out" the negative effects of X-linked mutations, they are far more likely than women to be affected by ...

Regulus Therapeutics will be acquired by Novartis AG for $7 per share in cash. Click here for more information on RGLS ...

At the heart of the acquisition is Regulus’ farabursen, an miRNA-targeting oligonucleotide in early-stage development for ...

Researchers have developed a machine learning model that predicts Cas9 proteins that can be tailored with designer properties for therapeutic use.

Tempest Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPST), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class1 targeted and ...

Semaglutide promising alternative treatment for chronic myopathy of hyperkalemic periodic paralysis suggests a case report ...