Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have ...

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

Mutations are a part of how species adapt to the environment over very long periods of time through the process of evolution. Thousands of different genetic disorders can affect human beings.

Complete recombination map of the human genome, a major step in geneticsScientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how ...

DNA transcription is the vital first step needed for switching on our genes. For a gene to be switched on, it must be acted ...

A study in the journal Pharmaceuticals has uncovered how specific genetic mutations in α2δ-1 and α2δ-3 proteins linked to autism spectrum disorders (ASD) alter neuronal functionality.

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you ...

Figure 2: Genetic map of 5p15.1 and genomic organization of ANKH. Figure 3: Cosegregation of ANKH mutations with the CMD phenotype. All eight families with mutations in ANKH are shown. We ...

Scientists studying an aggressive cancer that affects thousands of dogs annually have uncovered a genetic signature that ...

Two European regulators said on Wednesday they were tracking variants of the bird flu virus due to the threat of the pathogen ...

While no evidence of genetic mutation was found ... in explaining the differences between the two dog populations. "In human terms, this would be like studying a population that is centuries ...