Thousands of previously “invisible” microproteins—tiny chains of fewer than 100 amino acids—can profoundly change human ...

Scientists have discovered how mutations in a specific gene drive the rare developmental disorder Weaver syndrome, which is ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that reveals how protein ...

The human genome is contained in the nucleus of almost every cell in the body. But those cells also contain multitudes of mitochondria, and these incredible little power-generating organelles carry ...

Traditional methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a new simple approach to rapidly check on human gene changes ...

A new study suggests that the mitochondria in human egg cells don't accumulate DNA mutations with age, which sets them apart from other tissues in the body.

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in ...

Research scientist Piere Rodriguez-Aliaga, PhD, co-first author on the study, made mutations in the yeast versions of TRiC genes that corresponded to the 22 disease-linked human mutations.

Mitochondrial mutations don't seem to build up in women's eggs as they age, which suggests they may have evolved a mechanism to avoid this ...

A team from the Microbiology Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has discovered three powerful ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today its analysis of samples from the first severe case of bird flu in the country last week showed mutations not seen in samples from an ...