Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL, Gustave Roussy and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), have discovered that expansion of mutant blood cells, a phenomenon linked to aging, ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able ...

How do mutations happen, and how do they influence the future of a species? Molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin stick to one another, forming rigid rods. These rods cause a person's red blood ...

As we age, blood stem cells, the essential source of new blood cells in the body, can accumulate genetic mutations.

Lymphocytes are white blood ... kill cancer cells and control the immune response to foreign substances. They do this by destroying cells in the body that have been taken over by viruses or ...

The researchers found that a single mutation in the virus's spike protein was enough to prevent it from attaching to human and horse cells. The mutation, however, still allowed the virus to enter ...

Parcells along with several researchers, including Joseph Patria, a doctoral student in Parcells’ lab who graduated in August 2024, worry the virus will continue to get smarter and be able to mutate ...

Normally, blood-forming stem cells mutate as we age, which in some cases can increase the of diseases, including leukaemia – a type of blood cancer that affects around 10,000 Britons every year.