Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where RNA polymerase 'opens' your DNA to read and copy instructions – known as ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of ...

A study conducted in fruit flies by investigators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has linked a patient variant of ...

Should we remind ourselves that the Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing tool is still considered an experimental technology? According to a U.S. study, significant and frequent mutations have ...

Unique mutations in the H5N1 strain enhance replication in human cells and cause severe disease in mice. The virus has spread from birds to mammals, including dairy cows, and infected humans, with one ...

Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute are reporting that it would take just a single mutation in the version of bird flu that has swept through U.S. dairy herds to produce a virus adept at ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...