NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ...

The origin of red beans — also called adzuki — has been murky. A new study says Japan is where it all started.

Mutation induction, together with mutation detection a key element of mutation breeding, has been an important tool for plant breeders for more than 70 years to increase the genetic diversity of ...

With around 5,000 different ethno-linguistic and religious groups, India is one of the most culturally and genetically ...

Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a rare genetic mutation. The blue magnificent tree frog was spotted in the Charnley ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has uncovered significant genetic and antigenic diversity among H9N2 avian influenza viruses ... High prevalence of mutations such as HA-L226, NP-N52, ...

An otherwise active, healthy 39-year-old, Marisa Peters was a mother of three boys and still nursing her 16-month-old when she was initially diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer.

A study of 10,000 parent-child trios reveals that children’s new genetic mutations vary slightly by parental ancestry and smoking history. ... “New genetic changes that arise in egg or sperm cells ...

This genetic diversity stems from mutations. Often, these mutations are not helpful. But at times, they can enable populations to adapt to change. The genetic diversity of Australian threatened ...

These mutations and associated effects on gene expression can critically impact the development of traits and diseases. To identify mutations that change gene expression, the scientists measured RNA ...

Our findings highlight the molecular diversity and diagnostic challenges of HER2-mutated NSCLC in underrepresented ...