Mutation map reveals how amylin mutations influence type 2 diabetes

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have produced a mutational map showing how mutations in ...
Nature

Ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing maps mutations that precede cancer

Jian Carrot-Zhang is in the Computational Oncology Program, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York 10065, USA, and in the ...

Not all cancer mutations are equal: Mutation strength in a single gene shapes tumor behavior

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

Mutations driving evolution are informed by the genome, not random, study suggests

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...