Baylor College of Medicine

NIH awards more than $15 million to fund two rare diseases consortia

Baylor College of Medicine has received new funding from the National Institutes of Health for two consortia in the Rare ...

Study of the world's longest-lived person reveals rare genes and good bacteria are among the keys to a long life

What is the secret of supercentenarians? While there is no magical "elixir of life" that allows us to live forever, this ...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Discovery of rare genetic disorder inspires advocacy and research efforts

Ahn has studied SON since the early 2000s. After the discovery of ZTTK, she co-founded the ZTTK SON-Shine Foundation in 2021 ...

Individuals with these two genetic conditions are seeing increased, but unequal, life expectancies

New research from the Arnold School's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has found disparities in mortality rates ...

‘Grave danger': CDC reports ‘nightmare bacteria' cases are increasing in the U.S.

Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a ...