Cancer is often thought of as a single disease. Yet even tumors that arise in the same organ can follow very different ...

Professor of Microbial Evolution at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath The pandemic has enabled us to study the details of how evolution happens – in real time. Scientists have ...

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...

Experiments from the 1940s established a key tenet of genetics—mutagenesis occurs randomly across the genome. New research, however, suggests that mutations may be less random than originally thought.

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 ...