Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington's disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes ...

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

A groundbreaking study has unveiled how Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium often found in humans, evolves and survives, ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Normally, H5N1 binds to a receptor that is rare in humans, which limits its ability to infect people. However, these mutations could potentially change that dynamic. One of the mutations identified in ...

The mutations, similar to ones observed in a hospitalized patient in British Columbia, Canada, may make it easier for the virus to bind to cell receptors in humans’ upper respiratory tracts ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the the first severe bird flu case in the US that may increase its ability to infect humans. These mutations, found in ...