For decades, psychiatrists have told patients that conditions like schizophrenia and severe depression arise from a tangled ...

Scientists have discovered the specific genetic mutation that causes a child's brain to deteriorate, resulting in severe ...

Elana Thieme and Mark Mendoza, fourth-year graduate students in the Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) PhD Program jointly ...

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

The order of cancer-driving mutations—genetic changes—plays an important role in whether tumors in the intestine can develop, ...

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

A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

Deep inside your nervous system, a tiny fault in how cells make energy can quietly change the course of a life. That hidden ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

The fossil and genetic evidence agree that modern humans originated in Africa. The most genetically diverse human populations ...

EVE combines evolutionary insights with human population data to identify damaging genetic mutations, improving variant ...

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