Mutations : Science World Report

Feb 12, 2016 07:14 PM EST

Radiation from Chernobyl is Causing Blindness in Animals

Researchers have found that long-term exposure to ionizing radiation is causing blindness in animals in the vicinity of the Chernobyl disaster.

Jan 19, 2016 09:20 AM EST

Early Human Migrations from Africa May Have Caused the Accumulation of Harmful Mutations

It turns out that harmful mutations may have accumulated during early migrations out of Africa. Researchers have found that if humans migrated in small bands, then these groups progressively accumulated slightly harmful mutations.

Nov 09, 2015 10:32 PM EST

Rare Kidney Cancer In Children Caused By Genetic Mutation

Wilms tumor'--a rare kidney cancer that occurs in children--is the result of a genetic mutation in a gene called REST, researchers believe.

Sep 11, 2015 11:38 AM EDT

Deadly Ebola Virus May Mutate to Evade Drug Treatments

The deadly Ebola virus may be a lot more dangerous than we once thought. It seems as if genetic mutations called "escape variants" in Ebola block the ability of antibody-based treatments to ward of infection.

Sep 05, 2015 11:33 AM EDT

Neurology: Gene Mutation Discovered In Infant Epilepsy

A team of researchers at the Karolinska's Institutet and the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden have discovered a new theory that might explain severe early infant epilepsy, including mutations in the gene encoding of the protein KCC2. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communica...

Apr 30, 2015 06:17 PM EDT

New Breast Cancer Gene Discovered

A new study published in the journal Nature Genetics have linked mutations in a gene known as RECQL with onset of breast cancer among Polish and French-Canadian women. Furthermore, these statistics suggest that about 50 percent of women with the RECQL mutation will develop breast cancer.