Researchers confirmed that sperm accumulate mutations over the years, increasing the risk of transmitting diseases to ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations ...

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) report that the ...

Microcephaly is a congenital malformation that leads to a significantly reduced brain size and is often accompanied by developmental delay.

Researchers have refined a powerful DNA sequencing tool that can uncover hidden mutations that occur naturally in our bodies as we age. In the largest study to date, they have used the tool to provide ...

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 ...

An international research team, led by Shinghua Ding at the University of Missouri, has identified a previously unknown ...

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...

Because the new method can replace a large stretch of defective DNA with a healthy sequence, the same retron-based package can fix any combination of mutations within that stretch of DNA without ...

An international study has shown how and when entirely new gene mutations, known as de novo mutations, originate in dogs. A ...