Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes ...

Friedreich’s ataxia is a genetic disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system and brain, leading to a loss ...

What Are The Rarest Human Mutations? Opinion: The Marine Corps just had its 250th birthday — now let’s abolish it Trump says ...

An international research team involving the German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research (DPZ), Hannover ...

While the sperm was not sold to UK clinics, a small number of British families used the donor's sperm while having fertility ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

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

Blood type A(B) is caused by a four gene mutations and was discovered when the blood of patients and donors was being studied ...

A new study has revealed that a single genetic mutation, found in all modern humans but absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, could have played a role in the evolution of speech and language. The ...

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

Bizarre changes in animal behaviour and appearance have unfolded at the highly reactive Chernobyl site in the 40 years since ...