In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus would ...

A vaccine's ability to generate long-lasting, high-affinity antibodies hinges on a delicate balance. Upon exposure to a ...

A new study published in PLOS Genetics has identified an extreme mutational hotspot within the genome of Pseudomonas ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically analyzed somatic mutations in stomach lining tissue to unpick mutational ...

Germinal centers are high-speed evolution machines. Tiny clusters in the lymph nodes, germinal centers refine antibodies ...

Through the analysis of more than 500 mutations, the study uncovered the ... that selection at the level of lineages can drive the evolution of traits that enhance evolutionary potential, offering ...

The study found that gastric cells in some individuals carried three copies of certain chromosomes, hinting toward exposure ...

When evolution skeptics want to attack Darwin's theory, they often point to the human eye. How could something so complex, they argue, have developed through random mutations and natural selection ...

Mutated H5N1 Bird Flu Found in Cats: Scientists have identified a genetic mutation in two infected cats that is linked to ...

Successful high-affinity B cells can proliferate under special conditions that reduce the risk of mutation. Capturing this ...

The study showed that populations don’t lose their “evolvability,” even if conditions remain the same for many generations.

A study of 666 localised prostate tumours identified 223 driver regions, many influenced by structural variations ...