Environmental factors such as lifestyle and the medications you take influence the effects your genes have on your body — and can clarify how diseases develop.

As a researcher who studies the genetics of disease, I don’t fully disagree – lifestyle factors play a large role in ...

In contrast to diseases such as Tay-Sachs or cystic fibrosis, where mutations in a single gene cause a disease, chronic diseases tend to be polygenic, meaning they're influenced by multiple mutations ...

In contrast to diseases such as Tay-Sachs or cystic fibrosis ... might increase the drug’s protective effect against colon cancer. They were right: Only patients with slow aspirin metabolism had a ...

Netherlands-based Azafaros, a clinical-stage company developing therapeutics for rare lysosomal storage disorders, has ...

Grey’s Anatomy always has sad patient deaths, so it’s hard to forget some, even a notably heartbreaking peds death that affected Dr. Bailey’s career.

Once the cause itself is addressed, the healthcare provider will help the patient manage their symptoms ... myotonic dystrophy, and Tay-Sachs disease. Is there a cure for hypotonia? There is no known ...

On Tuesday (April 15), Tay-K was back in Bexar County Court in Texas to find out his sentence one day after the jury found the rapper guilty of murdering Mark Saldivar in 2017. Before the ...

These companies are at the forefront of developing cutting-edge therapies to improve patient outcomes. The drug pipeline for Tay-Sachs includes promising candidates such as venglustat (GZ402671 ...

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Dr. Matt Goldstein and Myra Sack lost their daughter, Havi, to Tay-Sachs disease in 2021. Tay-Sachs is a rare, inherited genetic disease primarily affecting infants and young children. There is no ...

Patients with these diseases have limited treatment ... GM1 gangliosidosis and GM2 gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases) are lysosomal storage disorders caused by the accumulation ...