Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade ...

Some DNA damage evades repair for years, causing repeated mutations during cell division, increasing cancer risk, especially ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

Researchers from NC State and Columbia University analyzed the genomes of dogs in Chornobyl City and the nearby Nuclear Power ...

Hundreds of people with Jewish ancestry have been identified as having a mutation of the BRCA gene which puts them at a ...