Yentli Soto Albrecht, who is a genetic carrier of ALS, is working on research at Penn that could one day prove life-saving.

Housed within the Abramson Cancer Center, the King Center for Lynch Syndrome will be first named and endowed center devoted ...

The FDA proposes new rules allowing mutation-specific gene therapies to qualify for approval despite extremely small patient ...

Researchers at Penn Medicine identified previously undiagnosed genetic conditions in nearly one in four critically ill adults admitted to the ICU. Credit: Abhiram Juvvadi Researchers at the Perelman ...

A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating ...

AM ET at the Baltimore Convention Center, the ACMG Foundation will join genetics professionals from around the world to present customized adaptive bicycles to children receiving care at Kennedy ...

Medical genetics is an interdisciplinary field that studies the role of genetic variation in human disease. It investigates a wide range of conditions—from single-gene disorders to complex polygenic ...

New research assessing the efficacy of optical genome mapping (OGM) in a group of patients with acute leukemia has demonstrated that OGM provided reliable and robust analytical performance with high ...

Technological advances, higher chronic disease prevalence, a greater focus on personalized healthcare, AI and big data, and regulatory changes, including orphan drug market expansions, have bolstered ...

In a manuscript published in the American Journal of Psychiatry titled "Psychiatric Genetics in Clinical Practice: Essential Knowledge for Mental Health Professionals," the authors provide updated ...

Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, has highlighted the real-world impact of precision medicine on a six-year-old patient with a rare genetic condition. Marking Rare Disease Day observed ...