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

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

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

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

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 ...

Hypopituitarism can be caused by mutations in a gene called Sox3. Scientists have now found that the makeup of the community of microbes in the gut, or the gut microbiome, can affect hypopituitarism ...

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 ...