As a psychiatric disorder with onset in adulthood, schizophrenia is thought to be triggered by some combination of environmental factors and genetics, although the exact cause is still not fully ...

The male reproductive system serves as a hotspot for the emergence of new genes. Perhaps that explains why more new mutations are inherited from fathers than from mothers. It doesn’t, however, clarify ...

Researchers have changed the way to look at DNA. They show that DNA is much more than a linear sequence of building blocks; it has a 3D structure that influences the variation of human genome-wide ...

Following the recent FDA approval of Braftovi with Mektovi for some patients with NSCLC and a BRAF V600E mutation, a lung cancer expert explains the science behind the news. The recent approval by the ...

What happens to the thousands of intestinal cells that have tumour-initiating DNA mutations? A study in mouse models shows that most are eliminated by strong negative selection, but those that survive ...

Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a psychiatric disorder with onset in adulthood, and is thought to be triggered by some combination of environmental factors and genetics. However, the exact cause of the ...

A single genetic mutation can lead to completely different diseases, depending on the time and location at which the mutation occurs. This finding emerged from the PhD study conducted by Rocio ...

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...

Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in development. These areas are in the initial portions of genes, where the cell tends ...

For more than a century, scientists have puzzled over why most orange cats are male. A groundbreaking 2025 study may have finally uncovered the genetic secret that sets orange cats apart from every ...