The fatal disorder has already struck more than 100,000 people around the world, international health officials estimate.

Researchers are using gene transfers to aid in the prevention of fatal or disabling genetic disorders.

If too many of them occur in a person, they will develop cystic fibrosis, an incurable and often fatal genetic disorder.

This in turn led to the identification of vitamin B12, which rendered the previously fatal disorder nearly harmless.

Attempting to force it to do so in the cats leads to negative, even fatal genetic disorders (see below).

Because it is the world's most common fatal genetic disorder affecting children, I initially took hope in thinking there must be much ongoing research.

To the families and doctors of children with sometimes fatal disorders that can be screened for but are not, this process is heartbreakingly slow.

On recovering from this near fatal disorder, he resumed his literary task, and carried it steadily forward to completion by 1650.

The girl has suffered since birth from a usually fatal disorder called biliary atresia.

If a parent has Huntington's, a fatal genetic disorder, each child has a 50 percent chance of getting it, too.