Is it possible to have "too many" mutations? What about "too few"? While mutations are necessary for evolution, they can damage existing adaptations as well. The statement that mutations are ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent and was ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".

Most mutations which cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a massive study of human protein variants published today in the ...

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

The gene mutation was isolated in a family in northern Italy where under half of the relations developed the disease. View on ...

Picture of a tomato plant with an unfavorable natural mutation (on the left) and a tomato plant in with the mutation was repaired by genome editing (on the right). The repair of the mutation leads ...

Driver mutations are the pathophysiological hallmark of the disease, but the role of mutation clearance after transplantation is unclear. In patients with myelofibrosis, clearance of driver ...