Spiders, their venom and their silk pose many unsolved questions for science. A new study provides clues to better understand ...

It often makes the shoulders slope forward and causes difficulty raising the arms. A gene mutation is a permanent alteration in one or more genes. Mutations cause changes in a particular gene’s ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

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 ...

Health authorities and researchers are closely examining the mutations found in the virus extracted from the 65-year-old man, who was infected through contact with backyard birds contaminated by ...

Even though a large proportion of cancer patients carry genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to cancer, only a small percentage of them — and their family members — undergo ...

Scientists had suspected since the discovery of DNA’s structure in the 1950s that genetic misspellings and other mutations accruing in non-reproductive, or somatic, tissues could help explain ...

Genes play a role in our likelihood of developing depression, and one of the most extensive studies of its kind has now been able to link 293 previously unknown genetic variations to the devastating ...

This news has medical experts paying close attention. This recent work addresses an antigen once labeled AnWj. Earlier findings had hinted at its importance in certain patients, but its genetic basis ...

Nearly 300 new genetic variants have been linked to depression, according to a new study that included a large sample of nearly 5 million people. The international team, led by researchers at the ...

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) announced on Thursday that it has begun offering individuals with Jewish ancestry swabs to check for mutations in their BRCA genes, which are associated ...

Study finds surprising way that genetic mutation causes Huntington's disease, transforming understanding of the disorder Researchers studying brain cells from Huntington's patients show that the ...