Researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland have identified a key regulator gene for the formation of cardiac valves - a process crucial to normal embryonic heart development. These ...

An international research collaboration led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has identified the first gene in which mutations cause the common form of mitral valve prolapse (MVP), ...

For the first time, gene therapy is showing promise for treating inherited deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. A study involving six children born with a genetic defect that left them profoundly ...

A study of 470,000 people reveals that the APOE gene could be behind 90% of Alzheimer's cases in the world today.

In an international study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a gene variant that controls the body's ...