Researchers discovered that a tiny structural feature of the enzyme GPX4 helps keep neurons safe. A rare mutation removes ...

Friedreich’s ataxia is a genetic disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system and brain, leading to a loss ...

What Are The Rarest Human Mutations?

Why do some children develop a brain that is too small (microcephaly)? An international research team involving the German ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Blood type A(B) is caused by a four gene mutations and was discovered when the blood of patients and donors was being studied ...

New bird flu mutations can survive human fever, making the virus potentially more dangerous. Learn how PB1 gene increases ...

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...