Something strange is happening to the dogs of Chernobyl—their DNA is changing at an unbelievable rate. Scientists have ...

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For the new study, however, researchers analyzed the dogs’ genomes deeper to find evidence of mutations that could have built up over time. Their findings indicated that dogs in Chernobyl city ...

For the new study, however, researchers analyzed the dogs’ genomes deeper to find evidence of mutations that could have built up over time. Their findings indicated that dogs in Chernobyl city had ...

A screen of a comprehensive library of rubisco variants (each with a different single-amino-acid mutation), expressed in engineered bacteria, identifies several mutations that improve the enzyme ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

Here authors show reserpine's disease gene-independent influence on photoreceptor survival and emphasizes the importance of considering biological sex in understanding inherited retinal degeneration ...

which compared their genes to similar populations in nearby Chernobyl City and elsewhere in eastern Europe, have found distinct genetic differences between the groups. But scientists couldn’t be sure ...