Tay Sachs is a devastating genetic disease with no known cure. But now, experts are hoping a new push for awareness could help parents down the road.

Alex and Gilda Fernandez feared the worst when the Miami Children’s Hospital geneticist asked them to meet in her office immediately. But they never expected this. The Fernandezes, of West Miami-Dade, ...

A team of scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) used gene editing to fix the mutation that causes a form of the rare Tay-Sachs disease in mice, sparking hope that the approach could ...

Patients in a Phase I/II clinical trial conducted by UMass Chan Medical School of a dual vector gene therapy for GM2 gangliosidosis, which includes Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, exhibited a ...

Some genetic disorders-such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease-involve many mutations in a person's genome, often with enough variation that even two individuals who share the same ...