Breakthrough study reveals how woolly mammoths and Arctic animals evolved their cold-weather superpowers over 3 million years ...

Without 8 or 9 hours of sleep, most of us end up staggering around like zombies. But according to a new study, some people ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as ... it can be inherited from just one parent—of many gene mutations. The condition can lead to complications as severe ...

The rate at which mutations arise ... called segmental duplications. High mutation rates were also observed in the compact ‘heterochromatin’ parts of the Y chromosome and in tandem repeat ...

all without detectable deletion or duplication. We have detected five point mutations causing Dp 71 premature translation termination. All were found among the more severely mentally retarded ...

It involves a mutation at a single location in the genome that has a big effect on colon cancer risk. The past 25 years of human genetics have shown researchers that these sorts of large-effect ...

For patients with disorders such as autism and schizophrenia, mutations in the same gene could require different treatments, according to new research from Yale School of Medicine (YSM).

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of ... New AI Tool Reveals Single ...

The pattern suggested it was down to an unknown “orange gene” on the X chromosome, but identifying that gene had eluded scientists until now. Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have pinpointed ...