Flu cases surging in FL: What to know about subclade K mutation

At least 11 million people have gotten sick, and 5,000 people have died from the flu this season, including nine children.

Schizophrenia-linked genetic variant renders key brain receptor completely unresponsive to both natural and therapeutic compounds

A rare genetic variant found in families affected by schizophrenia completely abolishes the function of TAAR1, an emerging ...

One Small Mutation Can Disrupt Brain Growth for Life

A microscopic flaw in the brain’s cellular scaffolding can shape brain size for life.

Shroom3 mutation linked to kidney scarring offers new drug target

Nearly 1 in 7 adults in the United States lives with chronic kidney disease, a condition that often advances quietly until ...

BRAF gene mutation leads to different therapeutic responses in melanoma and colorectal cancer

A review article led by researchers from the B·ARGO group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and from the Medical Oncology Department of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in ...
Nature

Mutation rate variation in multicellular eukaryotes: causes and consequences

Basic knowledge about the rate and range of mutation is central to our understanding of numerous evolutionary processes that include maintaining sexual reproduction and rates of molecular evolution.
eLife

Separating selection from mutation in antibody language models

This important study introduces a new biology-informed strategy for deep learning models aiming to predict mutational effects in antibody sequences. It provides solid evidence that separating ...
STAT

This family carried a rare mutation that should have been lethal. What was keeping them alive?

The result didn’t make sense. The researcher kept scanning the mouse’s pregnant belly, back and forth, back and forth. They could see the embryos on the ultrasound screen, cocoon-like, in grayscale — ...