Deputy speaker of the Assembly, Steven Aiken, has spoken out about the importance of early screening for the ‘Celtic Curse’ – ...

The main difficulty in estimating rates of mutation involves the fact that DNA changes are extremely rare events and can only be detected on a background of identical DNA. Because biological ...

Changes to short stretches of nucleotides are called gene-level mutations, because these mutations affect the specific genes that provide instructions for various functional molecules, including ...

A genetic mutation found in two human patients with schizophrenia also increased schizophrenia-related behaviors in mice with ...

This DNA has suffered a mutation, either through mis-copying (when its parent cell divided), or through the damaging effects of exposure to radiation or a chemical carcinogen.