At 10 months old, my daughter Gabrielle had missed key milestones for gross motor, fine motor, social and communication skills. Following two seizures, Gabrielle had an MRI that showed brain ...

Thousands of children with severe developmental disorders have benefited from more targeted treatments and support with genetic insights from the large-scale Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) ...

Irvine, Calif., July 6, 2006 -- Findings of a recent genetic study on developmental brain disorders may be the "tip of an iceberg" revealing factors involved with a number of congenital diseases, ...

Developmental biologist Dr. Alexandra Joyner is preparing to retire from MSK after an illustrious career. An overarching question she has pursued for 30 years is: How does the cerebellum get its folds ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies—one focused on ...

Schizophrenia is thought to affect 1 in 300 people, or about 0.32 percent of the global population, and treatment options are limited because of a poor understanding of the mechanisms underlying the ...

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a polygenetic disorder that increases the risk of hip osteoarthritis. A new ...

AI and RNA genetic-medicine company Genetic Leap is teaming up with pharma giant Eli Lilly to develop genetic medicine therapeutics. According to the two companies, the partnership expands on a pilot ...

Genetic conditions often result from inherited mutations passed down from one or both parents. In an inherited genetic disorder, a mutated gene is transmitted from a parent. 3 Recent developments have ...

Aspergillus nidulans has long served as a model organism for elucidating the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying fungal development. Research into its asexual and sexual life cycles has ...