A study published today in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology is the first time researchers have shown evidence that a ...

A scaling law relates the expected number of mutants to the total population size of cells in a spatially constrained but ...

The DNA mutations that drive evolution are generally thought to be fairly random, but a new study suggests there’s some order to the chaos. Comparing the genomes of hundreds of plants grown in a lab, ...

Scientists have created a new technique that can assess how mutations in the genome influence the packaging of DNA in cells. The genome is massive, and has to be carefully wrapped around proteins so ...

Geneticists have sought to understand the impact of genetic mutations, and what drives and maintains changes in DNA. Researchers have now reconstructed the evolution of a set of genes, and the ...

Natural systems such as CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs) offer a targetable, one-step way to edit genomes. However, ...

For centuries, we’ve thought of these changes as part of the "genetic lottery," something we can't control. Science is now ...

Scripps professor Sumit Chanda says improving coronavirus care is especially important to get ahead of any future mutations or pandemics ...

Proteins can be driven by mutations to self-assemble into agglomerates (composed of folded proteins) or aggregates ...

Although previously thought to be neutral, research in yeast suggests that synonymous point mutations may have strongly nonneutral effects. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan (MI, ...

SALT LAKE CITY—Cells with a mutation in the gene called K-Ras—found in close to 30 percent of all cancers, but mostly those with worst prognosis, such as pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and lung ...

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...