mutations

Since arriving on the market around 2010, gel manicures have become a staple in nail salons across the US and many parts of the world, and it’s easy to see…

It can pogo-stick along at 50-plus miles per hour, leaping 30-odd feet in a single bound. But that platinum-medal athleticism falls by the wayside at a…

In a discovery that challenges over a century of evolutionary conventional wisdom, corals have been shown to pass somatic mutations -- changes to the DNA…

In the early 1960s, University of Michigan alumnus Marshall Nirenberg and a few other scientists deciphered the genetic code of life, determining the rules…

The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these…

Variations in the genes for the newly discovered scent receptors for musk and underarm odor add to a growing body of research suggesting that humans' sense…

A simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according to new research from University of California, Davis, and the…

Nearly all mutations that occur are harmless glitches that don’t change how the virus works – some can harm the virus while a small…