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2,467 results for: mutations

  1. Health & Medicine

    Best choice for chronic leukemia treatment may change

    A newer treatment outperforms current frontline drug Gleevec in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia and an older drug may plug gap in coverage.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    Giant panda genome unveiled

    DNA clues suggest little inbreeding, surprise on the bamboo diet.

    By Laura Sanders
  3. Health & Medicine

    Celebrex combats skin cancer in vulnerable group

    Anti-inflammatory drug limits number of tumors in patients with hereditary condition

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Bornavirus genes found in human DNA

    Researchers have found molecular fossils of an RNA virus in human and other mammalian genomes, pushing back the emergence of RNA viruses millions of years.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Life

    MRSA bacterial strain mutates quickly as it spreads

    Antibiotic-resistant microbe's detailed family tree reveals roots of the global infection.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  6. BOOK REVIEW: The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time by David Sloan Wilson

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News

  7. BOOK REVIEW: Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church and Ed Regis

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

    By Science News
  8. Health & Medicine

    Tumor’s border cells told to leave

    Cells on a tumor's outer layer that touch healthy tissue receive a chemical signal that sends them wandering away.

    By Christen Brownlee
  9. Animals

    Poor Devils: Critters’ fights transmit cancer

    Tasmanian devils transmit cancer cells when they bite each other during routine squabbles, producing lesions that are often fatal.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  10. Chemistry

    Spore-detecting diving board

    Researchers have demonstrated a new way to detect bacteria.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  11. Anthropology

    Evolution persisted in agricultural era

    Natural selection has continued to propagate survival-enhancing gene variants in human populations over the past 10,000 years, according to a new genetic analysis.

    By Bruce Bower
  12. Health & Medicine

    Defect Detector: Plugging holes in a breast cancer–gene screen

    A genetic test not available in the United States catches many potentially cancer-causing BRCA-gene mutations not detected by the sole U.S. test.

    By Nathan Seppa