Multiple copies of amylase genes presumably allowed agrarian societies to more efficiently extract energy from a diet high in ...

Gene-editing therapies—techniques that modify DNA to treat or prevent disease—have the potential to transform the field of ...

New COVID-19 strains are emerging and with it the need for updated vaccines to protect people from the virus. So how do ...

The human avian flu has yet to pass from human to human, but state gene detectives are on the lookout for mutations.

All cancer mutations that cause drug resistance fall into one of four categories. New research has detailed each type, ...

Researchers obtain detailed picture of the specific mechanisms by which each individual mutation studied impacts drug response.

Neuroscientists say they have determined how a brain cell surface molecule shapes the way certain neurons behave.

A collaborative effort between investigators at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and ...

Initial findings of genomic analysis indicates that the Marburg virus, which caused an outbreak in Rwanda, has "a single zoonotic origin," meaning it jumped from an animal to a human only once and had ...