Boffins in Manchester have been studying the gene mutations of fruit flies to solve the riddle of what causes diseases like ...

Gene therapy has the potential to dramatically benefit patients with genetic blood disorders, but a small study on participants in a clinical trial for sickle cell disease suggests that a key process ...

(SALT LAKE CITY)--A gene mutation associated with a rare sleep disorder surprisingly also contributes to debilitating migraines, a new study led by University of Utah researchers shows. The discovery ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a form of a genetic disease known as ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst scientist has discovered that a mutation in the misfolding protein that causes Parkinson’s disease offers protection against another fatal neurodegenerative ...

Mutations in the tumor suppressor TP53 are a common cause of cancer, making the altered protein an attractive target for ...

An international research team reveals new molecular mechanisms associated with pathogenic mutations in the protein ...

In the vast majority of diseases caused by mutations in a single DNA sequence, the disruption of a gene is to blame. However, many non-coding elements in the genome, which inhabit what is sometimes ...

It is possible to have an abnormal smear but a normal colposcopy result. This can happen when someone has a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection but no precancerous mutations in the cervix. Cervical ...

Influenza cases are down across the United States, but a new flu strain mutation identified in August is causing a spike in ...