Researchers have shown that the most common rifampicin-resistance mutation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis not only helps the ...

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found. Working with ...

A new form of CAR T-cell therapy has been designed to find and destroy the cancer-driving stem cells responsible for a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), while ...

The pancreas is in the upper part of the abdomen. (Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Pancreatic ductal ...

Drugs targeting mutations in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene (ALK) are already useful in lung cancer, but they may also find a use in the treatment of leukemias. ALK mutations were found in two ...

This standardbred filly, born in New Zealand, has unusual coloring due to a new genetic mutation. The genetic change responsible was identified by the Veterinary Genetics Lab at the UC Davis School of ...

The genetic mutations that have been studied the most are those that have been linked to human disease, but what about mutations that provide some benefit? Researchers have now identified mutations ...

Labrador retrievers are dogs that are known as friendly and outgoing companions that are good for families. They are larger dogs that usually weigh between 55 and 80 pounds. New research has ...