A new study has raised alarm bells about the potential for the H5N1 bird flu virus to evolve into a strain sparking a human pandemic. A single mutation in the virus currently ravaging dairy farms ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations ...

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In a study published in Neuron, a research team at the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, aimed to ...

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The human genome is contained in the nucleus of almost every cell in the body. But those cells also contain multitudes of mitochondria, and these incredible little power-generating organelles carry ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

An international study has shown how and when entirely new gene mutations, known as de novo mutations, originate in dogs. A ...