A new publication offers an extensive examination of clubfoot, a congenital deformity known as congenital talipes equinovarus ...

Cerebral palsy, the most common cause of physical disability in children, has long been thought to result from brain injury in the fetus. But new Canadian research is challenging that notion ...

But genetic testing of a group of affected children from across Canada found that in 10 per cent of cases, structural changes to the DNA appear to have given rise to the condition.

Protecting your right to your genetic information In 2017 Canada passed the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, to protect people from being discriminated against over revelations of their genetic ...

There is screening for HIV, genetic abnormalities, various cancers and numerous other illnesses and health risks. There is, in short, a whole lot of screening happening in medicine. And there will ...

Pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT), also known as embryo selection, is a process in which embryos are screened for known genetic abnormalities during in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

With hESCs, the observed abnormalities were most often duplications near pluripotency-associated genes; in iPSC lines, there were duplications involving cell proliferation genes and deletions ...