Although more evidence is needed to pin down a cause, researchers suspect that climate change is to blame.

The country’s health ministry and the World Health Organization rush to contain the new outbreak.

Researchers initially set out to investigate the relationship between copper homeostasis and the rare Menkes disease, but they also found links to Parkinson’s.

When the O’Neills learned that their daughter had Sanfilippo syndrome, a devastating rare disease, they created a GoFundMe campaign that raised $2 million in less than a year.

Crowdsourced data from Geni.com, which includes the actor Kevin Bacon, answers questions about marriage, migration, and more.

Researchers examine the effects on the fruit fly intestine of the protein responsible for Fragile X syndrome in humans. 

A new analysis of Dolly’s skeleton suggests the cloned sheep’s arthritis did not lead to her death. 

Yeast study finds many instances—often among related genes—in which a mutation in one gene cancels the negative effects of a mutation in another.

By making oxygen more available, a benign bacterium can provide better growth conditions for a virulent one, according to a study.

Human variations in a gene that causes matted fur in mutant mice are tied to the skin malady.