When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that may lead to human-to ...

Researchers have proven that antibiotic-resistant strains of a harmful bacteria thrive in a diabetic infection environment.

The root causes of most forms of Alzheimer's disease largely remain a mystery. Now, researchers have revealed a new piece of ...

Did you see this? Nearly 1 in 10 Americans have asthma. Here's what causes it.

In real life, mutants can arise when their DNA changes to give them an advantage over the rest of the population. A team from the University of Michigan has used simulations on the Pittsburgh ...

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Though the majority of blonde-haired people today come from Europe, the unique hair colour originated in a land that is a ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

More Americans may have had bird flu without suffering any symptoms, a new study finds. That could allow the virus to mutate into something more dangerous.

Chennai: At least two gene mutations are more common in Indian women who develop breast cancer, the Bharat Cancer Genome ...

Researchers determined the clinical classification of more than 90% of potential BRCA2 variants of uncertain significance in ...