Researchers at the University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered an evolutionary change that may ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers than our primate cousins. The change affects a protein used by immune cells ...

Scientists have discovered a mutation in SARS-CoV-2, ... The study will be published Aug. 23 in Nature Microbiology. Changes in spike help the virus infect different cells in the body.

Not all genetic mutations are harmful; some have no effect at all, and sometimes they might even be helpful. Researchers have reported that a neutral mutation having no real purpose and occurring ...

Identification of KRAS mutation-associated gut microbiota in colorectal cancer and construction of predictive machine learning model. Microbiology Spectrum , 2024; DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02720-23 ...

William Vainchenker had long suspected a rogue JAK2 tyrosine kinase to be the cause of the myeloproliferative disorder, polycythemia vera. But with very limited resources at his disposal at the ...

Although previously thought to be neutral, research in yeast suggests that synonymous point mutations may have strongly nonneutral effects. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan (MI, ...

A high-throughput genetic screening of meiotic crossover rate mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana has unraveled a century-old mystery in the life sciences.

This mutation activates the stringent response pathway, allowing VRE biofilms to endure stressful environments—in this case, higher doses of antibiotics. The researchers also noticed an increase in a ...

American scientists warn that a new coronavirus found in China poses a pandemic threat. The virus, HKU5-CoV-2, is related to MERS. Slight mutations could allow it to infect human cells via ACE2 ...

Doha, Qatar – In a collaboration led by teams from Pathology and the Genomics Core at Sidra Medicine, a study has been published about a novel point mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that may affect ...