The study bolsters one hypothesis of when people arrived at the landmass that became Australia and other islands, and ...

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

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

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

Childhood psychosis risk appears to increase significantly among carriers of this gene variant. In A Nutshell First ...

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

Scientists discovered that certain gene changes allow cells to function even when frataxin, the protein lost in Friedreich’s ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

The first 100 bases of many genes show excess mutations, revealing a major genomic weak spot that shapes disease risk and ...

In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – ...

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