The U.S. FDA approved a pricey rare disease drug in September despite findings by its data reviewers that the treatment, ...

Bowhead whales, Earth's longest-living mammals, produce a unique protein that repairs DNA damage. This discovery could help ...

A newly discovered CPD gene mutation causes hearing loss, and scientists found that Viagra and arginine may help reverse it.

While cancer can strike nearly every organ in the body, the heart is a rare exception. Scientists believe this resilience ...

A Northwestern Medicine-led study has identified mutations in the gene CEP76 as a new cause of ciliopathies, shedding light on a complex group of disorders that affect multiple body systems, according ...

Scientists using TwinsUK data and ultra‑precise DNA sequencing have uncovered rare DNA mutations in healthy tissue that could ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown ...

A rare North American bumble bee may have been on a path toward extinction long before modern human impacts, suggesting that its long-term genetic vulnerability made it especially fragile and less ...

President Trump teed up a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in two weeks after U.S. and Chinese officials are set to discuss ways to de-escalate a growing trade war this week. Yale Law ...

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...

USA Rare Earth stock has surged 32% in five days amid China's heightened rare earth export restrictions. The company's recent $217 million acquisition of Less Common Metals adds new operational ...