A Dutch crop technology company has developed a breakthrough method to create stable graft chimeras—plants that combine the ...

As we age, blood stem cells, the essential source of new blood cells in the body, can accumulate genetic mutations. These ...

Horses possess a rare genetic peculiarity. This adaptation partly explains their exceptional endurance without compromising ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism by which a single genetic mutation in the BCL11B gene causes both immune dysfunction and brain development issues.

Deep-sea fish adapt to some of the most extreme conditions on Earth. New research analyzing their evolution finds the same mutation across fish species that have evolved on separate timelines — ...

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Horses stuck out with a single, highly unusual mutation. "It's a type of mutation called a nonsense mutation," he said. "That ...

“Because we know the genetic cause [of Stargardt disease], we felt that a new technology, base editing, could potentially [provide] hope for these patients where we can correct the underlying mutation ...

But each round of this process is a roll of the genetic dice—every mutation has the potential to improve affinity; far more often, however, it degrades or destroys a functional antibody.