Stanford says this new genome testing system can help tackle the more difficult cases of inherited disease.

We are moving from treating inherited diseases after birth to preventing them at the start of life.

For the first time, we are witnessing therapies that can fundamentally alter the course of inherited disease lifelong. The most recent breakthrough describes treating inherited disease in infants ...

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are advancing the fight against inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) with new genetic research that aims to improve diagnoses and lay the groundwork for ...

A new rapid blood test for newborns could potentially detect genetic mutations linked to thousands of rare diseases all at once, greatly improving on current inefficient detection methods ...

Scientists can protect children from being born with certain devastating genetic disorders by creating "three-parent" babies, according to the results of a landmark study released Wednesday ...

LONDON — Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their ...

An experimental technique that patches defective DNA with donated genetic material helped families at risk of passing rare illnesses to their children.