Logan Cyr, 16, joined a global accelerator program for teens that enables him to research cures for genetic malformations.

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

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

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

Despite modern technology and industrialization, humans are still changing as a species, even today. Here are a some indications that our evolution isn’t over.

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus. Doctors react and share their concerns.

Researchers have created the largest atlas of post-zygotic genome mutations in healthy human tissue ever assembled -- a scientific advancement that could unlock new avenues for diagnosing and ...

Humans are also adapting to their environment. Mutations allowing humans to live at high altitudes have become more common in populations in Tibet, Ethiopia, and the Andes.

Researchers have created the largest atlas of genome mutations after fertilization in healthy human tissue ever assembled — a scientific advancement that could unlock new avenues for diagnosing and ...

The maps, which authors describe as an unprecedented “near-error-free” look at the bug’s genetic make-up, reveal that certain mutations have made them resistant to insecticides.

Mutation Linked to Difference Between Human and Neanderthal Brains A single amino acid substitution in a protein causes increased neuron production in the frontal lobes of humans compared to ...

The newly developed atlas of genome mutations sheds insights into new new avenues for diagnosing and treating genetic disease.