The analysis revealed that about 2 per cent of sperm from men in their early 30s contained disease-causing mutations. That ...

These sequences are extremely prone to mutations and rank among the most functionally important regions in the entire human ...

Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...

In order to predict a variant's abundance and effect on the public, Clare Frasier, a graduate student at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa is investigating the links between the rate of new cases, ...

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process When ...

High-throughput sequencing is a rapid form of genomic sequencing that has been extensively used during infectious disease outbreaks, both to track and contain the infection and to monitor for future ...