Flu by state: Where this season’s highly contagious variant is spreading the most

A highly contagious flu mutation called subclade K is sweeping the nation, raising health concerns about vaccine ...
Morning Overview on MSN

A tiny mutation can derail brain growth for life, study finds

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...
Morning Overview on MSN

This rare mutation wipes brain cells, and the trigger is finally known

A vanishingly rare genetic glitch in a single enzyme can erase a newborn’s brain cells in a matter of weeks, leaving doctors ...

Take a closer look at this rare mutation that makes swimming impossible

Take a closer look at this rare mutation that might make swimming impossible In our earliest science lessons, we learned that ...

One Small Mutation Can Disrupt Brain Growth for Life

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.
Nature

Mutation rate variation in multicellular eukaryotes: causes and consequences

Basic knowledge about the rate and range of mutation is central to our understanding of numerous evolutionary processes that include maintaining sexual reproduction and rates of molecular evolution.

BRAF gene mutation leads to different therapeutic responses in melanoma and colorectal cancer

A review article led by researchers from the B·ARGO group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and from the ...
STAT

This family carried a rare mutation that should have been lethal. What was keeping them alive?

The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept scanning the mouse’s pregnant belly, back and forth, back and forth. They could see the embryos on the ultrasound screen, cocoon-like, in grayscale — ...
eLife

Translational reading frame determines the pathogenicity of C-terminal frameshift deletions in MeCP2: an alternative therapeutic approach

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...