Scientists already suspect that somatic mutations—those that accrue in cells outside the germline over a person’s lifetime, seemingly at random—play a role in neurodegenerative diseases. Now, several ...

For decades, the standard explanation for autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis has rested on two pillars: inherited genes and environmental triggers. Now, a growing body of research points to ...

In a study published in Current Biology on August 14, Prof. Miao Wei's team at the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Zhang Jianzhi's team at the University ...

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Two new studies from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have investigated how mutations that occur in muscles and blood vessels over time can affect aging. The studies, which are published in Nature ...

As these cells die, the vessel wall becomes weaker and more susceptible to disease," says Lara Garcia Merino, doctoral student at the same department and first author of the study. The study also ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Findings provide some of the strongest human evidence to date that expansion of the Huntington mutation is a key factor in ...