A nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Houston researchers to investigate ...

Mutation rates govern the introduction of genetic variation and influence evolutionary trajectories, disease susceptibility and species diversity. Rates are shaped by a balance between DNA damage, ...

In a study published in Current Biology on August 14, Prof. Miao Wei's team at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Zhang Jianzhi's team at the University ...

A new technique, TF-High-Evolutionary (TF-HighEvo), allows large-scale assessment of de-novo mutations in multicellular organisms. Developed in collaboration with researchers from the European ...

A new study from deCODE genetics uses pedigrees and sequence data from 64,806 Icelanders to shed light on the rate and nature of mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and the peculiar dynamics of its ...

Scientists studying how microbes evolve have long assumed that nearly all new genetic mutations get passed down at a predictable pace and usually without either helping or hurting the microbe in ...

A University of Iowa biologist has won a grant of more than $1 million from the National Science Foundation to study how species’ reproductive modes may affect their DNA mutation rates. Maurine Neiman ...

Using sequencing instruments from multiple vendors, scientists from the University of Utah Health, the University of Washington, PacBio, and elsewhere have developed what they claim is the most ...

Community-based patient navigation and preventative care among women surviving breast cancer. Gentian violet compared with methylene blue for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: A ...

Retrospective study of fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy dosing and toxicity in patients with screen-detected deleterious DPYD gene variants. Real-world treatment patterns, healthcare resource utilization ...

A clump of proteins seems to be in charge of the level of DNA repair that takes place in our bodies, determining how fast mutations accumulate in our cells over a lifetime – and might thus affect our ...