Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...

Scientists believe that mutations in the brain they previously thought were rare might actually be happening inside each and every one of us. In fact, scientists believe that these brain mutations ...

Rutgers neuroscientist Peng Jiang and his neuroscience colleague Mengmeng Jin have made a discovery they say could reshape ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where RNA polymerase 'opens' your DNA to read and copy instructions – known as ...