Life makes mistakes. A major genetic study shows how some of those mistakes worked out well for humans. By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Published Apr 27, 2023 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Siblings with autism often have DNA mutations that are very different from each other, which suggests that autism is often genetic happenstance, according to a new study. An analysis of the DNA of 170 ...

Researchers have traced the cause of increased numbers of mutations in children to a higher rate of random mutations in sperm cells of the biological father, associated with rare genetic defects in ...

This produces point mutations in the DNA, which are mostly harmless but can sometimes lead to genetic disorders. In the new study, the Surrey researchers discovered that some of these modifications ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...