To address the issue of inherited diseases, Abu Dhabi's Department of Health has announced a mandatory genetic testing ...

Abu Dhabi's Department of Health is making premarital genetic testing compulsory for UAE couples. This testing will help ...

Screenings can be conducted before or during pregnancy and couples may be referred to the programme during obstetric visits ...

Genetic variability and sex-specific differences may play a role in sickle cell ... Hb SC) genotype, 7 had hemoglobin S beta ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Sep. 11, 2024 — A new approach for delivering miniature research tools into the interior of egg cells and embryos has been developed, resolving a major bottleneck to ...

Medical genetics involves the application of genetics to medical care, including research on the causes and inheritance of genetic disorders, and their diagnosis and management.

It’s been almost a year since the Food and Drug Administration approved the first genetic treatments for sickle cell disease.

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a recently discovered tool for genetic editing. It allows for very precise and directed ... The first therapy that they were ...

Genetic disorders are diseases caused by an abnormal gene, often described as a mutation. When such diseases are inherited (rather than the result of a random mutation), it means they are passed along ...