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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Some missense mutations are known to cause disease. But what about the thousands of other missense mutations that have ...

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