The outcome of a frameshift mutation is complete alteration of the amino acid sequence of a protein. This alteration occurs during translation because ribosomes read the mRNA strand in terms of ...

Although scientists often assume that synonymous mutations don’t cause any biological effects because they don’t alter the amino acid sequence, recent research shows that they can influence ...

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. A geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate ...

However, the genetic mutation responsible for this significant transformation has remained elusive until now. In a new study ...

Applied since the 1930s to accelerate the process of developing and selecting new valuable agronomic traits, mutation breeding uses a plant’s own genetic make-up, mimicking the natural process of ...

During translation, the sequence of codons is read in order from the nucleotide sequence to synthesize a chain of amino acids and form a protein. Frameshift mutations arise when the normal ...

The database can be found on the website CFTR2, which stands for the Clinical and Functional Translation of CFTR ... website describes the characteristics of more than 1,000 CFTR mutations. Users can ...

Missense mutations are genetic alterations arising from the substitution of a single base pair (bp) in an amino acid (aa) sequence with a different base pair, resulting in the translation of a ...