A new study compares the accumulation of mutations across many animal species and has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in ageing and cancer.

And the longer animals live, the fewer mutations they pick up each year. Dogs have around 249 annual mutations, a lion 160 and a giraffe 99. Humans averaged 47.

Somatic mutations naturally occur in all cells throughout an animal's lifetime, with humans acquiring around 20-50 mutations per year on average.

The new study found that animals with shorter generation times had fewer inherited mutations. Oliver Krueger If they found a mutation in around 50% of an offspring’s DNA, they concluded that it was ...

The animal, which has a genetic mutation and was born with no melanin, had pink ears and snout. Another albino deer was spotted in Greensboro, North Carolina, in January, according to My Fox 8.

Mutations Spreading? Studies in other animals—mostly smaller ones like birds, rodents, and insects—show that Chernobyl radiation can cause mutations and ill health effects, ...

Life Animals that care for young may have more mutations and evolve faster. An experiment in beetles shows that when parents care for their young, the population accumulates more mutations over ...

In a step toward treating mitochondrial diseases, researchers in the Netherlands have successfully edited harmful mutations ...

Other researchers in the collaboration made similar mutations in roundworms and zebrafish to study how the mutations affected multicellular animals and, in the case of the zebrafish, brain ...

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, according to a new study.

The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in ageing and cancer.