Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...

After 50 years, scientists discover the MAL blood grouping system, solving a genetic mystery and improving transfusion safety ...

Not every mutant or member of the X-Men develops amazing mutant powers like Gambit or Nightcrawler. These mutants have it ...

Scientists have characterized the role of thousands of mutations in the BRCA2 cancer gene, findings that may help reassure ...

“We don’t know what combination of mutations would lead to a pandemic H5N1 virus and there’s only so much we can predict from these sequence data. But the more humans are infected, the more ...

But the virus that made this teenager critically ill had two mutations that could make it easier for the pathogen to infect humans. These mutations have Richard Webby, an influenza virologist at ...

The new study explains a longstanding puzzle in medicine: why do some people who've inherited a disease-causing mutation ...

A genome sequence taken eight days after the onset of her symptoms showed three mutations in the specimen, including in genes that “facilitate viral entry into cells in the human respiratory ...

Mutation were detected in 9 patients. We describe the first ATM mutation in the splice junction found in the 5′ splice site of intron 17, leading to exon skipping. However, most mutations were ...

As of December 30, the CDC has confirmed 66 human cases of the bird flu virus in the United States. Most of them were mild ...

The recent outbreak of bird flu stems from a mutation of the H5N1 virus that affects humans more easily, compared to past mutations of the virus that targeted birds and not mammals. On Thursday ...