You are what you eat, but what happens to those calories after you eat may depend more on your genes than you think.

Inherited bone marrow failure syndrome, or IBMFS, describes a group of disorders in which inherited genetic abnormalities ...

The human genome is broadly classified into the genome residing in the cell nucleus (nuclear DNA) and the genome residing in the mitochondria (mitochondrial DNA: mtDNA). Mitochondria are cell ...

A man who inherited a gene fault that causes early Alzheimer's has never developed the disease - he is in his late seventies.

Australian researchers have discovered that a single mutation in the DNA sequence for a methylation enzyme dysregulates key tumor-suppressing pathways, opening up new avenues for blood cancer ...

Mitochondria are well known as the powerhouses of the cell because of their energy generating capabilities. These little organelles are very special, because they also carry their own tiny little ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

A study has found that even if all causes of aging, such as telomere shortening, are eliminated, only half of people would survive to 156 years. This is because DNA mutations accumulating in cells ...

Scientists at the University of Idaho discovered a naturally occurring genetic mutation in wheat that is associated with a 5% ...

Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...