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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study by biologists from the Scripps Research Institute shows that a bird flu virus is just a single mutation away from ...

Beneficial mutations happen quite frequently, but the world changes too fast for them to stick.

Cancer does not develop overnight. It can take decades for cancer‐promoting changes in the genome to eventually lead to the formation of a malignant tumor. Researchers at the German Cancer Research ...

Concern surrounding the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating in dairy cows in the United States is growing. A total of 58 human cases have been reported as of ...

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A key step in the origin of many pandemics occurs when an animal-borne virus infects humans and then evolves to spread more ...

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ordinary ...

A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...