Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The ...

However, the mutation lay between two sites associated with a nearby gene called Arhgap36, which regulates an important hormone signaling pathway used by nearly all mammalian cells and tissues ...

A new study has revealed that a single genetic mutation, found in all modern humans but absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, could have played a role in the evolution of speech and language. The ...

"We found that each person carries on average two mutations in any one of 1,900 recessive genes. According to textbooks, carriers of such recessive genes should not experience any disadvantage.

That meant that the mutation didn’t disrupt the gene’s expression in the cat’s genome but that it was close enough to affect the gene’s activity, specifically in cells that produce melanin.