Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Biohub will offer new grants to the rare disease community while expanding its AI drug repurposing partnership with Every Cure.

CNBC Cures aims to help raise awareness of rare diseases and improve patient outcomes for people living with them. Led by "Squawk Box" anchor Becky Quick, the initiative was inspired by her family's ...

The U.S. government has awarded Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia $39 million to develop a scalable platform for treating rare genetic, liver-related diseases in infants and children. The federal ...

The energy that powers cells of the human body comes from tiny cellular components called mitochondria. Just as a draining battery makes it difficult to operate an electronic device, mitochondrial ...

Cases of Powassan virus have hit the news in recent months because of the potentially life-altering, sometimes fatal, ...

Across America, millions of parents of children with rare diseases are in a race against time, hoping that new treatments will be developed fast enough to save their kids. Thanks to advances in ...

Rare diseases are complex medical disorders that are notoriously difficult to diagnose because many present with a wide variety of symptoms that can overlap with more common illnesses. Currently, ...

The new policy acknowledges that biology is personal and that technology now allows medicine to be personal as well. The FDA aims to clear a path for patients (often children) with vexing genetic ...

Over a thousand children visit Boston Children’s Hospital every day. Many get clear diagnoses and begin treatment, but a small subset of pediatric visitors with rare illnesses never get diagnoses at ...