Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered that a known chemical signal pathway is linked to cancers of the esophagus, stomach, and pancreas. In mice, blocking this chemical pathway ... Read More

In a study done at the Standford University Medical Center, the drug arsenic trioxide was given to mice with glioblastoma, an incurable form of brain cancer. The mice then ... Read More

"The India Rubber Man" was a common attraction in traveling shows of the past. Most likely the performers had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue disorder, which permitted unusual contortions.

Rhodopsin, a protein in the back of the eye that helps sight in dim or low light, has been implicated in retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that causes ... Read More

A team of researchers has developed a molecular test to detect the presence of four proteins associated with melanoma, a skin cancer that can be deadly. Melanoma may spread to ... Read More

This disorder, most likely genetic in origin, produces distinctive facial features and other physical and behavioral problems.

For the past few years, surgeons have been able to operate on fetuses before they are born to correct spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spine doesn't close ... Read More

Scientists at three universities worked together on a study to determine which genes are active in scleroderma, a disorder in which connective tissue grows abnormally, causing painful hardening of the ... Read More

This genetic disorder results in kidney disease, Wilms tumor (kidney cancer), and abnormal sexual development. There have been less than 200 known cases worldwide.

Neuroblastoma, the second most common pediatric tumor, develops in the fetus and is diagnosed in infancy. Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (Ontario, Canada) and the University of Toronto, ... Read More

Researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York conducted a small study (10 patients) in which a vaccine for pancreatic cancer was made from each patient's own tumor ... Read More

Scientists discovered the gene for Huntington's disease, also known as Huntington's chorea, in 1993. Yet no cure exists. Learn more about this hereditary degenerative disorder of the nervous system, its ... Read More

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that the defective protein in Huntington's disease, called huntingtin, disrupts nerve signals and protein transport in ... Read More

Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a new protein involved with Fanconi anemia. When this protein, called PHF9, is inactivated, it disables the function of a ... Read More