Danielle Alexander has always had eating and weight problems since the day she was born … but was only diagnosed with an exceptionally rare form of mitochondrial disease when she was 33.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. In ...

At 22, Daniel Cressy is making history as Louisiana’s first sickle cell gene therapy patient. The treatment could be a cure ...

Eight healthy babies have been born in the UK using DNA from three people, an IVF breakthrough that prevents inherited ...

Vietnamese police say they have dismantled a major international surrogacy network, rescuing 11 infants and arresting ...

Connery, Sean Connery. Known for his paradoxical mixture of rough-and-tumble Scotsman combined with graceful self-possession, ...

Ghana has approved the world’s first malaria drug for newborns, marking a breakthrough in infant care. But as rollout nears, ...

"The worst thing that could ever happen to them had happened," says author Haley Cohen Gilliland of the grandmothers' search ...

Haley Cohen Gilliland's A Flower Traveled in My Blood tells the story of a group of grandmothers who spent decades searching ...

Scientists discovered that jewel wasp larvae that undergo a developmental "pause" live longer and age more slowly at the ...

Breastfeeding reduces breast cancer risk by 22%–50% for BRCA gene mutation carriers, study shows. Despite the protective role of breastfeeding, early detection remains important for high-risk groups ...