Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Scientists at UC San Diego find that gene expression is linked to gene mutations and may be caused by them. That could make ...

In a nutshell Scientists discovered that random DNA mutations don’t just cause local damage, they trigger widespread changes ...

According to UCSD, there are two prevailing theories about the relationship between aging and our DNA. The somatic mutation theory suggests aging is caused by an accumulation of mutations leading to ...

A recent study by researchers from Peking University demonstrates the potential of nuclear electric resonance to control the nuclear spins of nitrogen atoms in DNA using electric field gradients, ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

The rate of molecular evolution is measured by using computer algorithms that estimate the number of substitutions (fixed mutations) per unit time in DNA sequences. This process is aided by using ...

Published in Cell, the study titled, “Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease,” ...

Childhood or young adult onset patients usually with acromegaly can also have mutations in the AIP gene without a known family history of pituitary adenoma. DNA (Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid) is the ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...