A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

Figure 2: Genetic map of 5p15.1 and genomic organization of ANKH. Figure 3: Cosegregation of ANKH mutations with the CMD phenotype. All eight families with mutations in ANKH are shown. We ...

Your body is a collection of cells carrying thousands of genetic mistakes accrued over a lifetime—many harmless, some bad and at least a few that may be good for you ...

Rather, the mutation is innocuous for decades ... An international team of human geneticists found that common genetic variations in the genes encoding these DNA-repair proteins can hasten or ...

Bird flu viruses pose an increasing threat, with the potential to adapt to humans and trigger future pandemics, European disease experts warned yesterday. Thirty-four genetic mutations that might ...

Andrew Teschendorff, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is developing computational systems-biological tools to ...

Receptor mutations alone don't guarantee that the virus will transmit between humans, he stressed, and other genetic changes would likely be necessary for this to take place. That said ...

and no mutations in other genes have been identified that would indicate adaptation to humans. There is also the possibility that a particular mutation that allows H5N1 to better bind to human ...

While no evidence of genetic mutation was found ... in explaining the differences between the two dog populations. "In human terms, this would be like studying a population that is centuries ...

Rather, the mutation is innocuous for decades ... An international team of human geneticists found that common genetic variations in the genes encoding these DNA-repair proteins can hasten or ...

Feral dogs living near Chernobyl differ genetically from their ancestors who survived the 1986 nuclear plant disaster—but these variations do not appear to stem from radioactivity-induced mutations.