This, to the authors, led to an obvious conclusion: the mutation conveyed some sort of selective advantage to the virus, possibly allowing it to replicate or spread more readily.

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

Mutations are alterations to a DNA sequence. If one thinks of the information in DNA as a series of sentences, mutations are errors in spelling the words that make up those sentences. Sometimes ...

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, according to a new study.

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

A SARS-CoV-2 variant has taken over the world, but it's not clear whether the coronavirus mutation is highly transmissible or just lucky.

A new study from the University of Michigan Rogel Health Cancer Center, published in Science, sheds light on how two distinct classes of mutations in the FOXA1 gene—commonly altered in prostate ...

A study pinpoints a key mutation that may have put a bat coronavirus on the path to becoming a human pathogen, helping it better infect human cells.

A day after a blockbuster report that researchers had edited harmful genetic mutations out of human embryos in an Oregon lab, an international group of genetics experts urged scientists against ...

Mutation linked to autism impairs oxytocin-mediated social behavior in mice Date: May 18, 2021 Source: Tokyo University of Science Summary: Mutations associated with autism can inhibit the release ...

The geneticist's toolbox gained two new molecular techniques, scientists announced Wednesday.