Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with ...

Some viruses mutate more rapidly than others. Learn more about why that is and what that means for your health.

The Omicron variant of COVID continues to spur governments and scientists into action this week, with booster shot programs being expanded. In response to the potentially vaccine-resistant new variant ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in ...

BRCA gene mutations are well known indicators of a person’s risk for breast cancer, however the PALB2 mutation is the third most prevalent breast cancer gene experts say people should be aware of in ...

Scientists have discovered how a mitochondrial mutation rewires immune function in a model of inherited primary mitochondrial ...

Worldwide, only a handful of patients are known to suffer from episodic ataxia type 6, a neurological disease that causes transient loss of muscle control. The cause lies in a mutation that changes a ...

If your doctor thinks you have non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), they will usually look for a change (they may call it a mutation) in a gene called the EGFR gene. Normally, EGFR helps healthy cells ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a form of a genetic disease known as ...