European fertility clinics used cancer-causing sperm for 17 years, prompting urgent calls for genetic screening reforms and ...

New research published in Nature Communications has linked a normal cellular process to an accumulation of DNA mutations in ...

Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Neurogeneticists have discovered a novel genetic mutation and associated buildup of toxic proteins in the brain -- a type of buildup distinct from amyloid or tau, proteins that have long been the ...

Directed evolution,' which induces mutations in genetic material to create useful functions, is considered a core technology ...

Texas Oncology in Wichita Falls now offers genetic testing to identify mutations that could increase cancer risk, which can ...

A team of researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has uncovered why children with the same ...

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...

Because only part of the man's sperm carried the mutation, only the second round of genetic testing revealed the problem. By ...