The research looked specifically at blood stem cells, which live in the bone marrow and make different types of blood cells.

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

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Unexpected mutations in blood stem cells may help protect against Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal ...

These insights build on earlier work that categorized three major FOXA1 mutation types. "This study goes further," Chinnaiyan ...

During photosynthesis, an enzyme called rubisco catalyzes a key reaction—the incorporation of carbon dioxide into organic ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine discovered that mutations in the TET2 gene in blood stem cells could protect ...

The research is a transformative step toward understanding the condition's genetic underpinnings and potential for ...

Blood cancer, which originates from irregular blood cell generation within the bone marrow, represents a serious health ...

THERE could be as many as four different types of autism, scientists have discovered. Each type has its own genetic signature ...

Although preserved inner-ear integrity and function at early ages should theoretically predict a better response to the gene ...

Chemotherapy can increase mutation burden and change the cell population structure of normal blood, which contributes to long-term adverse effects such as second malignancies and infertility, ...