When a child develops kidney failure or a rare bone disorder, the cause can seem painfully immediate. It may be a single broken gene, a sudden diagnosis, or a family searching for answers. However, ...

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A University of Texas at Austin-led team has reconstructed the most detailed map to date of the molecular machines that ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia. By Carl Zimmer To prepare for future pandemics, scientists look to the past for clues.

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

Scientists unveil 145 genes vital for genome health, and possible strategies to curb progression of human genomic disorders. More than one hundred key genes linked to DNA damage have been uncovered ...

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Guinea worm is slated to be the first parasitic disease eradicated in history and the first without medicine or a vaccine.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Serious interventions are needed to contain the spread of mosquito-borne diseases. Global warming, poverty and ...