Every organism's genome contains mutations that often have unknown biological effects. In partnership with Stanford University, researchers at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin have now discovered a ...
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 ...
Although previously thought to be neutral, research in yeast suggests that synonymous point mutations may have strongly nonneutral effects. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan (MI, ...
MOSCOW, March 25./TASS/. Most of the coronavirus mutations that we see now are neutral, the deputy director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology at the Rospotrebnadzor consumer rights ...
For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and proteins change over time. The idea grew from early work in the 1960s, ...
The existence of genetic variation for resistance in host populations is assumed to be essential to the spread of an emerging virus. Models predict that the rate of spread slows down with the ...
Ever since the genetic code was cracked, those mutations have generally been assumed to be neutral, or nearly so. But in a study published online June 8 in the journal Nature that involved the genetic ...
Evo is a large language model that is not trained on words but on the genomes of millions of microbes. It can accurately predict the effects of mutations. When you purchase through links on our site, ...
As a group, carriers of recessive disorders are slightly less healthy and have a reduced chance of having offspring. This disadvantage is greatest for carriers of a recessive gene for intellectual ...