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 ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argues Sui Huang from the Institute for Systems Biology, U.S., and colleagues in an essay published in the ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

Mutation dynamics and fitness effects lie at the heart of evolutionary change. Every generation, genomes accrue spontaneous alterations ranging from single-nucleotide substitutions to larger ...

Spread the loveFor decades, the prevailing scientific dogma has been that DNA mutations – those tiny, often devastating ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have published results that shed new light on an old question: what causes aging at the molecular level? Their findings, published ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argue authors of a new essay. It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a ...

3D structure of a melanoma cell derived by ion abrasion scanning electron microscopy. It’s time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argued Sui Huang from ...