Bird flu viruses pose an increasing threat, with the potential to adapt to humans and trigger future pandemics, European ...

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

The risk that avian influenza viruses will adapt better to humans is increasing. Rapid detection of genetic changes in these ...

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

Scientists at deCODE genetics/Amgen have constructed a complete map of how human DNA is mixed as it is passed down during reproduction.

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

Bored Panda has tracked down a bunch of photos of animals who aren’t letting genetic mutations stand in their ... Keep scrolling for an adorable list of animals breaking stereotypes by sporting ...

Human cells usually contain two copies of most genes ... These findings may help explain why a few people who carry disease-causing genetic mutations do not show symptoms of disease while the majority ...

"We now have opportunities to investigate the potential effects of emc1 gene mutations that have been linked to human patients but have yet to be experimentally confirmed. We can also use ...

While most are harmless and go unnoticed in day-to-day life, researchers estimate that missense mutations are responsible for ~33% of human genetic diseases. Missense mutations are surprisingly ...