From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an ...

In a major step toward treating rare neurological diseases, scientists have used gene editing to correct mutations inside the ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

Most research in human genetics has historically focused on people of European ancestries—a long-standing bias that may limit the accuracy of scientific predictions for people from other populations.

Horses didn’t just change how people traveled. They rewired the course of civilization. Yet scientists have always puzzled ...

Further examinations revealed that the golden retriever TNNI3 mutation is autosomal recessive. This means that each parent ...

To make horses rideable during domestication, people may have inadvertently targeted a mutation in horses to strengthen their backs and their balance.

The patient in Louisiana who was hospitalized with severe bird flu illness was found to have a mutated version of the virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced last ...