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

Without 8 or 9 hours of sleep, most of us end up staggering around like zombies. But according to a new study, some people ...

Scientists have confirmed that there is something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines. In a new study, Stanford ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are ...

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 ...

A newly identified mutation helps super-sleepers get by on just four to six hours of shut-eye per night, while the rest of us ...

The method first takes a given SARS-CoV-2 spike protein sequence and simulates all possible single-point mutations. For each mutated version of the protein, DNMS uses the ProtBERT model to ...

Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.

Among the forms of monogenic macular degeneration, the most common is Stargardt disease. This disease is caused by mutations in the ATP-binding cassette transporter alpha 4 subunit (ABCA4) gene, ...