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 ...

Macaques reveal human-like genetic cause of inherited blindness, offering new disease model

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in ...
University of California, Davis

Identifying Genetic Causes of Blindness in People and Macaques

An inherited form of blindness directly comparable to a common inherited optic nerve disease in humans has been discovered in ...
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 ...