For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable it to more easily replicate in human cells and cause more severe ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".

Tool for analyzing the inter-mutational distances between SNV-SNV and INDEL-INDEL mutations. Tool separates mutations into clustered and non-clustered groups on a sample-dependent basis.

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

However, genetic analysis of the virus that infected her revealed alarming mutations that could potentially enhance the virus's ability to target human cells and cause severe illness. The ...

But genetic analysis of the virus that infected her body showed ominous mutations that researchers suggest potentially allowed it to target human cells more easily and cause severe disease — a ...

CDC Reports Potentially Troublesome Mutations in Bird Flu Found in Louisiana Patient By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Federal health officials have ...

Our study examined the mutation efficiency of the CRISPR/Cas9 method for tryptophan aminotransferase BnaTAA1 genes involved in the auxin biosynthesis pathway. We made nine CRISPR/Cas9 constructs with ...