The discovery may explain why cutting edge CAR T-cell therapy has managed to revolutionized treatment for blood cancer but ...

No two people are alike, due to the subtly different ways our genomes are expressed. But sometimes these biological differences lead to genetic mutations that are extremely rare, and sometimes ...

The origins and functional effects of postzygotic mutations throughout the human life span. Science , 2023; 380 (6641) DOI: 10.1126/science.abn7113 Cite This Page : ...

The genetic mutation behind shovel-shaped teeth (pictured above) might have helped babies survive the intrepid journey from Siberia to Alaska 20,000 years ago.

Rare discovery: How a gene mutation causes higher intelligence Date: May 10, 2022 Source: Universität Leipzig Summary: When genes mutate, this can lead to severe diseases of the human nervous system.

For instance, the lab previously found that humans and Neanderthals have a point mutation in another gene, called ARHGAP11B, which increases both neocortex size and brain folding when introduced into ...

The ancestors of humans and chimpanzees may have begun genetically diverging from one another 13 million years ago, more than twice as long ago as had been widely thought, shedding new light on ...

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

Humans are mutating more slowly than our closest relatives. Mutation Station. The rate of mutation in the human genome has slowed significantly over the past million years or so, according to new ...

The human brain (about the size of 10 tennis balls) is three times bigger than a chimp’s. There are multiple theories for why we evolved large and complex brains.

Bird flu patient had virus mutations, sparking concern about human spread The severely ill Louisiana patient had a different viral strain than nearby birds, CDC found By Melissa Rudy Fox News ...

But researchers have found 96 human-specific mutations that changed the structure of a protein. In 2017, Anneline Pinson, a researcher in Dr. Huttner’s lab, ...