Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown that a genetic mutation that causes congenital heart disease also ...

How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

New research reveals how bowhead whales live more than 200 years and rarely develop cancer, offering promising insights into ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain immune cells in humans are less effective at fighting solid tumors compared to ...

What if human DNA suddenly stopped mutating? Learn how halting evolution could impact disease, adaptation, and survival.

There are a lot of places, conditions, and situations that just don't seem all that survivable for most people. But for ...

Researchers have identified nine mutations in a bird flu strain from a person in Texas. Bad news: this strain is more capable of causing disease and replicates better in the brain. Good news: approved ...

A comprehensive analysis of over 500,000 human protein variants reveals that 60% of disease-causing missense mutations reduce protein stability In a recent study published in Nature, researchers used ...