The DNA mutations that drive evolution are generally thought to be fairly random, but a new study suggests there’s some order to the chaos. Comparing the genomes of hundreds of plants grown in a lab, ...

A new single-cell profiling technique has mapped pre-malignant gene mutations and their effects in solid tissues for the ...

In recent years, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1, has been devastating bird populations around the world. In the US alone, over 60 million agricultural birds have been affected, ...

Some genetic diseases are caused by inborn errors - genetic mutations that we're born with and that end up in every cell in the body. Others, however, are caused by genetic mutations that arise during ...

A new study headed by teams at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and Open Targets has indicated how mutations that cause cancer drug resistance fall ...

Although previously thought to be neutral, research in yeast suggests that synonymous point mutations may have strongly nonneutral effects. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan (MI, ...

A common mutation in the KRAS gene is associated with improved overall survival in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) compared with other variants, in part because the mutation appears to lead to ...

This goes against one of the key assumptions of the theory of evolution. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Genetic changes that ...

Astronaut cancer risk needs careful monitoring, concludes a study that stored spaceflyer blood for 20 years. All fourteen astronauts in the study, from NASA's space shuttle program, had DNA mutations ...