RIKEN researchers have demonstrated the protective effects of a specific genetic mutation against Alzheimer's disease in ...

Researchers from the Department of Pathology, School of Clinical Medicine at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Genetic factors are thought to play a major role in the development of autism – but for decades what they are has proven elusive. Now scientists are starting to uncover clues.

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

Scientists at The Jackson Laboratory have discovered how aging blood stem cells acquire mutations that give them a growth ...

Learn about haemophilia, a genetic blood disorder, on World Haemophilia Day 2025. Know its causes, symptoms, and preventive ...

Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of bases of DNA were flipped backwards and moved from ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

Have you ever wondered how new species come into existence? Well, buckle up, because we’re about to dive into a moth-tivating ...

Imagine looking into the eyes of a chimpanzee and seeing a flicker of something deeply familiar—a spark that hints at a ...

Humans have been at war with members of the ... obsessively pursued variations of this approach, designing one gene mutation that would render females sterile and another that would lead to ...