As the body ages, cells naturally accumulate dozens of genetic mutations each year. New research from Boston Children's ...
Despite progress in defining functional elements of noncoding DNA, it is still not fully understood. Researchers, using an experiment that elucidated the function of tens of thousands of noncoding ...
New research suggests that autoimmune diseases may be driven by DNA mutations in immune cells that remove the natural brakes ...
The risk of older fathers passing on disease-causing mutations to their children is higher than we thought. Genome sequencing has revealed that among men in their early thirties, around 1 in 50 sperm ...