People get hantavirus from contact with rodents like rats and mice, especially when exposed to their urine, droppings, and saliva. It can also spread through a bite or scratch by a rodent, but this is ...

Two studies show signs that the introduced DNA is functioning, but it’s too early to know if patients actually benefit. Two patients who received Sangamo’s zinc finger–based treatment for Hunter ...

Shire’s attempts to develop a drug for cognitive impairment from the rare inherited disease Hunter Syndrome has failed to produce results. The company’s Elaprase (idursulfase) is already ...

The University of Manchester has announced today a groundbreaking gene therapy partnership to ease the lifelong suffering of people with Hunter syndrome. The University has agreed to a worldwide ...

Officials said Friday that Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman, died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome last month in the couple’s home in New Mexico.