My mum was so young when I lost her to breast cancer. She was only 35. I was eight and my sister Charlotte was nine. Sixteen ...

While some procedures in the UK may be ‘ethically questionable’, they have allowed for serious genetic conditions to be ...

Dylan Lombard became only the 13th person in the world to be diagnosed with MDP syndrome, a debilitating rare disease which ...

A cohort of eight babies at risk of inheriting mitochondrial disease were born without complications after British scientists ...

Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.

A pioneering reproductive technology reduced the risk of children inheriting disease-causing mutations in mitochondria, ...

The more Betsy Adler learned about her family's medical history, the more interested and concerned she became. Several of her first cousins had been treated for cancer, and three of her male ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

Olivia had been showing symptoms since she was just 7 months old — including a belly that remained swollen, hard to the touch ...

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three ...

For Quarbin DeGroshe, a 21-year-old from Duchesne County with Down syndrome, the ferris wheel at Lagoon is a clear favorite.

The moment remains frozen in photographer Larry Hersberger’s mind, as if the camera he uses to make a living had captured a stark, black-and-white image of the small, drab room ...