With a rate of mutation 35 percent higher than random chance, this previously unknown weakness could be a major vector for ...

European fertility clinics used cancer-causing sperm for 17 years, prompting urgent calls for genetic screening reforms and ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a ...

A single sperm donor who carries a rare cancer-causing genetic mutation has fathered at least 197 children across 14 ...

Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...

Scientists discovered a small protein region that determines whether plants reject or welcome nitrogen-fixing bacteria. By ...

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same ...

Research links variations in the gene GRIN2A to a higher risk of developing schizophrenia and other forms of mental illness.

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

For years, researchers have watched the tiny power plants inside brain cells falter in Parkinson’s disease and wondered what came first. Did those damaged mitochondria trigger the illness, or did they ...