Blood does more than just carry oxygen and nutrients. Its many “markers,” known as antigens, can trigger unexpected responses. Most folks have heard about the blood groups A, B, and O, and the Rh ...

Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha is home to the world's only population of melanistic tigers, a rare genetic variant of the Royal Bengal Tiger. Melanistic tigers, with their distinct coat pattern ...

Melanistic tigers have more black pigmentation or stripes on their body due to a genetic mutation, resulting in thicker, more pronounced stripes that often merge, giving them a darker appearance.

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death. A study ...

Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable it to more easily replicate in human cells and cause more severe ...

Researchers in the group of Dr. Myriam Charpentier discovered a mutation in a gene in the legume Medicago truncatula that reprograms the signaling capacity of the plant so that it enhances ...

A mutation that causes an amino-acid substitution in a channel called CNGC15 in the plant cell’s nucleus boosts the formation of such endosymbiotic relationships. Studying ion channels in their ...

This means that the damage has multiple chances to generate harmful mutations, which can lead to cancer. While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms ...

The Garvan team revealed that this is not the case -- rather, the critical trigger is mutations in 'rogue clone' B cells. "This discovery fundamentally changes our understanding of how infections ...

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".

It’s been thirty years since Disney released one of its most iconic animated movies, The Lion King (1994). The movie tells the story of Simba, a lion cub who is excited to become king ...