Among the most famous demonstrations of genetic mutations driving infection outcome is severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

There may be hopeful news ahead for families with a history of breast and ovarian cancer. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet have developed and tested a new method that ...

Despite their bad reputations, the vast majority of mutations are not harmful. Even in very rare genetic disorders, only one or two genetic variations ­— out of tens of thousands — is actually the ...