Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to beneficial soil microbes. This ...

Hundreds of people with Jewish ancestry found to have BRCA gene mutation - As part of the programme, anyone over 18 in ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

A groundbreaking study has unveiled how Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium often found in humans, evolves and survives, ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Osteosarcoma is a type of aggressive bone cancer that most commonly affects children and young adults between the ages of 10 and 20, during times of rapid bone growth. Although rare, it has a ...

A rare genetic mutation forced North Central's Adelyn Flessner to quit gymnastics. Now she's is among IHSAA's top divers, ...

A new study reveals a mutation mechanism in osteosarcoma, promising advances in treatment and prognosis for this challenging ...

Mutations that happen throughout a person’s life may contribute to disease more than we realized. In the summer of 2018, ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal ...

Radiation-induced mutation is unlikely to have induced genetic differences between dog populations in Chornobyl City and the nearby Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that ...