In the natural selection theory, not a large number of mutant individuals appear at once, the mutation that "happens to the surrounding environment" happened by chance will spread over time throughout ...

Researchers have identified how a single mutation in the GPX4 enzyme causes neurons to undergo ferroptosis, leading to severe early-onset dementia.

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

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Mutations can drastically help or hurt the odds of an organism surviving and reproducing. Researchers have created a computer program called ExtRaINSIGHT that tracks the history of harmful mutations ...

Around 5,000-10,000 years ago, dairy farming changed some people’s DNA. As they began to drink milk, human adults’ genes began to accumulate mutations that would help them digest it. Such mutations ...

Two University of Wisconsin researchers Edgar Spalding and Takeshi Yoshihara recently published a study concluding that there ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...