The gene mutation was isolated in a family in northern Italy where under half of the relations developed the disease. View on ...

In particular, the lab is investigating the role of DNA methyltransferase 3a (DNMT3A) in regulating stem cell function, and how mutations in DNMT3A lead to age-related clonal hematopoiesis and ...

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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 ...

Some missense mutations are known to cause disease. But what about the thousands of other missense mutations that have ...

The aforementioned study did not identify a specific H5N1 isolate currently circulating in the real world. It was an ...

Lung cancer expert Triparna Sen delivered a seminar in the Cancer Biology Seminar Series at the University of Wisconsin Jan.

Osteosarcoma is a type of aggressive bone cancer that most commonly affects children and young adults between the ages of 10 and 20, during times of rapid bone growth. Although rare, it has a ...

showed that natural populations of the flies exhibited the same kinds of genetic variations that could be produced artificially by mutation in the laboratory. Moreover, he showed that natural ...

One of the studies' leads, Prof Bette Korber, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, said there was not a consensus, but the idea the mutation increased patients' viral load was "getting ...

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear disaster since World War II decimated Chernobyl in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 years ...