On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

For columnist Alyssa Silva, advances in the development of SMA treatments have felt like glimmers of miracles.

Veteran scientist Hideo Makimura, M.D., Ph.D., is going fully preclinical by joining gene therapy biotech Affinia ...

According to a new study, an investigational blood test can reliably and efficiently identify colon cancer in middle-aged ...

Children who inherit genetic mutations from parents with early-onset Alzheimer’s typically show signs of dementia at the same ...

NY's health insurance grievance total in 2023 was the second-highest tally since 2016, underscoring growing discontent with health insurance industry.

The Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) recently announced a proposed rule that would “make cigarettes and certain other ...

The management of Leishmania donova ni (LD), responsible for fatal visceral leishmaniasis (VL), faces increasing challenges due to rising drug-unresponsiveness, leading to increasing treatment ...

Affinia Therapeutics, a gene therapy company with a pipeline of adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies for devastating ...

Modern medicine is helping clinicians tailor cancer treatments for individuals and Birmingham researchers are at the ...

The first participants in an international clinical trial aimed at preventing Alzheimer’s disease in young adults at high ...

Researchers are enhancing the best features of AAV capsids and overcoming their limitations to accelerate gene-based therapies.