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Everyday DNA mutations can help us understand immune function and aging—and even mitigate harm caused by some inherited ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of reality. The mutation disrupts a brain circuit involved in flexible ...

A previously unreported mutation in a gene critical for brain development is offering new clues to a rare and poorly understood intellectual disability disorder 1. In a 16-year-old patient in India, ...

Some of your most important life partners are the mitochondria that power all your cells. You and these little cellular powerhouses are in a 1.5-billion-year-old evolutionary relationship—but ...

Weiwei Fan (left) and Ronald Evans (right) developed a new platform for studying mitochondrial DNA mutations that lights the way to new therapeutics for mitochondrial diseases and mitochondrial ...

Salk Institute scientists have developed a biological platform for studying mitochondrial DNA in physiology, adaptation, disease mechanisms, and therapeutic development. Headed by Ronald Evans, PhD, ...

Scientists have captured the most detailed structural images to date of a specific type of protein's DNA repair process, a ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and Goodfire, a San Francisco research startup, say they have used an AI model to predict which genetic mutations cause disease—and, crucially, to explain why—offering a ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have used an advanced gene-editing technique to correct the underlying cause of a severe form of epilepsy in lab mice. This breakthrough could one ...