It began with a blue reunion T-shirt, a silver bracelet, and a mystery that would not go away. Back in August 1998, the body ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

The victim found in a San Diego ravine 27 years ago has been identified as Alicia Ledezma Sanchez after a DNA match with her ...

It was once home to one of the West Coast's finest theater schools, with alumni including Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman.

A Washington man appeared to be destined to develop Alzheimer’s disease — but against all genetic odds, he has eluded the common dementia for decades. Researchers at the Washington University School ...

Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; children ...

Jason Mast is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the science behind new medicines and the systems and people that decide whether that science ever reaches patients. You can reach Jason ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

England's AviadoBio is looking to China as a potential source of additional gene therapies, securing an option to a $413 million biobucks deal that could deliver a clinical-stage rare eye disease ...

Gene Simmons was hospitalized Tuesday after getting into a car accident. The legendary KISS rocker was driving on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Calif., before 1 p.m. PT, when his Lincoln ...

KISS co-founder Gene Simmons is said to be doing “fine” after crashing his SUV into a parked car along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. The crash occurred early Tuesday afternoon, just before 1 ...