Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep to function properly. Some people can feel well-rested and show no negative effects of ...

Recent technological advances have made it possible to directly measure the frequency of rare nucleotide substitution mutations in human germline DNA. Semen is an ideal source of genetic material ...

Point mutations are often thought of as the raw material of evolution; these small changes include the substitution of one nucleotide with another (often referred to as a single-nucleotide ...

It would be another two years before French researchers would identify a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS, or acquired ...

FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) mutations represent some of the most pivotal genetic alterations in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), influencing ...

That point mutation in TKTL1 means that the Neanderthal version of the protein has a lysine where the modern human version has an arginine. After conducting experiments with fetal human neocortex ...