From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Two months later, Gould began to experience a strange cascade of symptoms. His ankles swelled to the width of his calves. The right side of his face became so bloated that he could not open his eye.

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

The mutation in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, which causes the incurable, dominantly inherited Huntington’s disease, was identified decades ago, following one of the most closely watched disease gene ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

The Cancer Gene Census (CGC) is a widely used module within the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (COSMIC) that comprises an ongoing effort to catalogue and describe all genes with causal ...