Scientists using TwinsUK data and ultra‑precise DNA sequencing have uncovered rare DNA mutations in healthy tissue that could ...

University of Queensland researchers have found that a genetic mutation that causes melanoma can lie dormant in healthy skin, ...

New research using data from the TwinsUK cohort has helped reveal how naturally occurring DNA mutations in healthy tissue may ...

Scientists have identified mutations in the CPD gene as a key cause of a rare congenital hearing loss, revealing how ...

A new study by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School is providing one of the most detailed ...

Investigators have unveiled for the first time that changes in certain genes affect an aggressive cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), differently depending on genetic ancestry. The ...

A gene mutation known to develop into one of Queensland’s deadliest cancers could be hiding in skin undetected.

MTHFR is the acronym for a gene (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase) that produces an essential enzyme. The acronym for the enzyme is also MTHFR. It’s worth knowing about this gene because it plays a ...

Potentially harmful DNA mutations can amass in men's sperm as they age, new research has found, which may in turn impact the ...