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

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you ...

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

A new study has uncovered a direct link between somatic mutations and epigenetic modifications, challenging established views ...

Figure 2: Genetic map of 5p15.1 and genomic organization of ANKH. Figure 3: Cosegregation of ANKH mutations with the CMD phenotype. All eight families with mutations in ANKH are shown. We ...

Unique mutations in the H5N1 strain enhance replication in human cells and cause severe disease in mice. The virus has spread from birds to mammals, including dairy cows, and infected humans ...

the authorities have announced the first human fatality from the disease, on Monday, January 6, in Louisiana. Health authorities and researchers are closely examining the mutations found in the ...

European agencies call for better preparedness and greater information sharing on avian flu as they identify new mutations ...

A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...