An emerging field of genetics promises to let parents choose the “healthiest” baby.

It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ... He adds that slowing down certain DNA-maintenance processes with a molecular therapy ...

A genetic mutation is an alteration in the genetic ... or there might be an extra copy of a long stretch of genes. One example is Down syndrome, in which the person has an extra copy of the ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington’s is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn’t know how the mutation causes brain cell death.