A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Your DNA may predict more about you than the way you look. According to the genetic theory of aging, your genes (as well as mutations in those genes) are responsible for how long you'll live. Here's ...

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

Scientists at Scripps Research in San Diego tested various genetic mutations on virus material from infected cattle. They found that the Q226L mutation enhanced the virus's ability to attach to ...

Yet what physicians are only now beginning to realize is that somatic mutations may help explain illnesses that were never considered “genetic” at all. Somatic mutations occur after conception ...

Not just neurons The intricacy of our neural pathways is unrivaled in the animal kingdom. However, Yi suspects that our unique intellect isn't a result of this on its own. Human glial cells ...

New work by Columbia researchers has turned a textbook principle of genetics on its head and revealed why some people who carry disease-causing genes experience no symptoms. Every biology student ...

We propose that an extended analysis of all coding regions of the UBA1 gene may uncover other mutations with putative functional consequences. References [1]Beck DB, et al. Somatic Mutations in UBA1 ...

But genetic analysis of the virus that infected her body showed ominous mutations that researchers suggest potentially allowed it to target human cells more easily and cause severe disease — a ...

A California Department of Food and Agriculture technician perform tests on chickens for bird flu in 2006 at the Best Live Poultry & Fish store in Sylmar. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) ...

The authors write that mutations found in the virus in this patient highlight an urgent need for vigilant disease surveillance to identify and assess viral changes to evaluate the risk for ...