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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 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 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 ...

Mutations in p53 were found in 42 percent of samples, and it was the most highly mutated gene in five of the cancer types they looked at. p53’s job is to scan along the length of DNA, looking ...

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 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 ...