A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

In other words, mutations occur randomly with respect to whether their effects are useful. Thus, beneficial DNA changes do not happen more often simply because an organism could benefit from them.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have published results that shed new light on an old question: what causes aging at the molecular level? Their findings, published ...

A new study has uncovered a direct link between somatic mutations and epigenetic modifications, challenging established views ...

Scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and McLean Hospital have discovered a ...

A nonsense mutation is a genetic mutation in a DNA sequence that results in a shorter, unfinished protein product. DNA is a chain of many smaller molecules called nucleotides. During protein ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent ...

For the first time, scientists have created a database that details how hundreds of thousands of genetic mutations disrupt the function of proteins, leading to disease. | Credit: theasis via Getty ...