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

Scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Columbia University have ...

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

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 ...

About 10 in 100 people are left-handed, but why? A new article highlights the crucial role of early brain development for ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more ... According to Mak, this list is expanding. “The guidelines keep including more people, and ...

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

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause ... Most previous research on human brain tissue had focused on CAG-repeat tracts of ...

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