Scientists have identified a rare gene mutation that prevents Type 2 diabetes, the New York Times reported. In a study of 150,000 people, researchers identified a mutation that destroys a gene ...

The research looked specifically at blood stem cells, which live in the bone marrow and make different types of blood cells.

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

New Gene Mutation Identified In Common Type Of Dementia Date: July 11, 2007 Source: American Academy of Neurology Summary: Researchers have identified a new gene mutation linked to frontotemporal ...

Mutations in a gene that can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, even in people who have risk factors such as obesity and old age, has been found by an international team of researchers.

Hereditary BRCA mutations have long been known to increase the chance of developing breast and several other types of adult cancer, but new research has shown that they might also increase the ...

A study published in Cell Stem Cell reveals that some mutations in blood stem cells might help protect against late-onset ...

In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers from the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and the Wellcome Sanger Institute have discovered that mutations affect protein stability following ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery that allows them to attribute two types of tumour almost entirely to specific mutations that lie in two related genes. Chondroblastoma and giant cell tumour ...

A multinational study has identified a key gene mutation responsible for type 2 diabetes in nearly 10 percent of patients of white European ancestry. The study, which originated in Italy and was ...

Scientists discover that, in almost every patient, specific mutations in two related genes drive the development of two types of bone cancer. This study, published in Nature Genetics on 27 Oct ...