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2,474 results for: mutations

  1. Health & Medicine

    Ulcer microbe changes quickly to avoid immune attack

    During the initial weeks of infection, Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, mutates at a high rate, apparently to evade the body’s defenses.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Life

    HIV hides in growth-promoting genes

    The discovery that HIV can trigger infected cells to divide means scientists may need to rethink strategies for treating the virus that causes AIDS.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Neuroscience

    Alzheimer’s disease may come in distinct forms

    Mouse experiments, if confirmed in people, imply that Alzheimer’s disease treatment should be personalized.

    By Laura Sanders
  4. Life

    Tibetans live high life thanks to extinct human relatives

    DNA shared by modern-day Tibetans and extinct Denisovans suggests people picked up helpful genes through interbreeding with other hominids.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  5. Plants

    Wine corks may owe quality to gene activity

    Discovery of genes that distinguish superior stoppers from inferior ones could help reverse recent global downturn in quality.

    By Nsikan Akpan
  6. Plants

    Dastardly daisies

    This flower isn’t just any old sex cheat. It can be sexually deceptive three ways and in 3-D.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Genetics

    Monkeys born with edited genes

    A DNA-snipping technique inspired by bacteria shows therapeutic promise.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  8. Neuroscience

    Diuretic may treat autism, study in rodents suggests

    Drug that lowers chloride levels in brain cells staves off symptoms in mice and rats.

    By Laura Sanders
  9. Neuroscience

    Gene adds wrinkle to brain development

    Mutations in the gene GPR56 results in misshapen folds in the brain tied to intellectual and language disabilities.

    By Laura Sanders
  10. Neuroscience

    Girls may require more mutations than boys to develop autism

    New results may help explain why more males wind up with autism.

    By Laura Sanders
  11. Neuroscience

    Brain chemicals help worms live long and prosper

    Serotonin and dopamine accompany long lives in C. elegans worms under caloric restriction.

    By Laura Sanders
  12. Health & Medicine

    Diet fix eases Huntington’s symptoms in mice

    Supplement improves health of rodents with mutation that causes neurodegeneration like that seen in Huntington’s disease.

    By Laura Sanders