Scientists have revealed parts of the genome that are especially vulnerable to mutations that occur very early on in ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of ...

The possibility has been raised that the complex language ability unique to humans emerged due to a specific genetic mutation. Although extinct primitive humans had similar anatomical structures for ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where ...

Modern humans (Homo sapiens) are capable of complex speech, and this ability has been of great help to the survival of the species. In an experiment conducted by a research team at Rockefeller ...

Previously overlooked regions at the start of human genes have been shown to accumulate mutations far more often than would ...

What made humans talk and understand speech? Scientists finally know. LONDON: What made humans talk and understand speech? Scientists finally know. Neuroscientists have found that a gene mutation that ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...