Scientists discovered a blood stem cell mutation that may lower Alzheimer’s risk. Learn how this breakthrough could shape ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments ...

Fourteen million people worldwide suffer from enlarged hearts, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that ...

In sequencing the samples of this species, the research team found the genetic mutation, Tyr25Phe, which has previously been tied to coagulation in rodents, in 53.7% of the black rats tested ...

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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have shown that genetic messages are misplaced in nerve cells in a model of Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. These messages mostly ...

Scientists have also tracked down a mutation in a different gene that confers resistance to certain norovirus strains that are a major cause of acute gastroenteritis worldwide.

Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

Chunks of flipped DNA appear to accelerate evolution in fish. This discovery could reshape our understanding of how ...