Tay-Sachs is passed down from parents to child. When both parents carry a mutation or change in the Tay-Sachs gene, each of their children is at 25% risk for the disease.

Researchers have developed a way to replace more than half of the most severely affected cells in, called microglia, with non ...

Screening for Tay-Sachs, based on a simple blood test, was developed in the 1970s. The test became widely popular among the Jewish population, with mass screenings at temples and community centers.

Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal ...

Tay Sachs is an ultra-rare, fatal genetic disorder with no cure. The disease destroys nerve cells, ultimately leading to paralysis. “She does have a lot of therapies,” Halim said.

Tay-Sachs Disease pipeline insight provides comprehensive insights about the Tay-Sachs Disease pipeline landscape, pipeline drug profiles, including clinical and non-clinical stage products, and ...

JScreen, an organization that encourages people to undergo testing for genetic diseases, has launched a campaign highlighting families who lost children to Tay-Sachs disease. Tay-Sachs is a rare ...

Tay-Sachs disease does not have a cure and we are sitting with the Thornton family to learn more about it. We’ll also learn about Cenzy’s family is holding it together day by day.

She says Tay-Sachs used to be considered only a Jewish disease. But in recent years, she's seen 3 babies of Irish descent with it in our area. Nathan is only one still alive.

Patients with Tay-Sachs have an inherited trait that inhibits production of a crucial enzyme called Hexosaminidase A, which is responsible for breaking down fats called gangliosides that ...