Mutations that accumulate in blood cells with age and raise the risk of leukemia and lymphoma can also colonize the brain’s ...

A new study by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has identified genetic factors that determine whether prostate cancers are susceptible to a type of cell death known as ...

Studies of genetics conducted in yeast cells, human neurons, mice or other model systems often reveal networks of genes that ...

The development of cancer is not a process triggered immediately by the emergence of an oncogenic mutation. There is growing ...

A team of researchers led by Professor Akitsu Hotta (Department of Clinical Application) developed a comprehensive framework ...

Researchers found genetic mutations associated with rodenticide resistance in 84% of house mice sampled across New York, New ...

Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human biology when mutated. A fundamental discovery is overturning decades of ...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have uncovered how genetic mutations cause a rare group of inherited neuromuscular disorders and identified promising new strategies to correct ...

A new evolutionary theory suggests that some asexual parasites may temporarily be able to infect a wider range of hosts as harmful genetic mutations build up. In a paper published in Trends in ...

As we age, our cells accumulate DNA mutations. If any of these mutations confer a growth advantage to a self-renewing or long-lived progenitor cell, its lineage can expand. The progenitor cells that ...

Clones grown from embryo plants in culture. A UC Davis study shows that clones grown in this way can have 35 times as many mutations in their DNA as plants propagated from cuttings and grown in a ...