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

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the U.S. stockpile of bird flu vaccines is still well ...

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

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 ...

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

Spontaneous mutations tend to reduce fitness in populations of living organisms, but this erosion of fitness is countered by natural selection. This study uses the first mutation accumulation ...

Transposons, specifically LINE-1 elements, previously regarded as genomic parasites, play a pivotal role in early human ...

Radiation is a form of energy emitted as waves or particles, and it can be categorized into ionizing and non-ionizing types, ...