One was 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb ... ‘Popular belief is that radiation causes mutations, and you know what, it’s true,’ Steve Palumbi, a professor of marine sciences ...

This becomes even more complicated when disease-causing DNA mutations are introduced into the mix. Some genes can be mutated in many ways to cause the same disease, meaning one condition can be ...

Oncogenic mutations often involve single nucleotide substitutions at specific hotspots, leading to hyperactive or gain-of-function variants. Tumor suppressor mutations typically involve indels ...

Researchers have discovered key mutations in certain cancer cells that make them resistant to WRN inhibitors, a new class of anti-cancer drugs. The yet-to-be-published findings are presented on ...

Some research suggests the MTHFR gene mutation, linked to conditions like depression and bipolar disorder, may play a role in ADHD’s onset, too. Treatments like folate supplementation may help.

Krzysztof Wodiczko discusses his 1999 project, Hiroshima Projection, which involved projecting the hands of atomic bomb survivors onto the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, one of the few structures still ...

COVID-19 is evolving and with it the need for new vaccines to protect people against serious illness and death. Australia has detected its first cases of the highly transmissible XEC "recombinant ...

Simon Shima survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and eventually found contentment and friendship in the country once considered Japan's enemy. Today, carrying lessons from ...

At least 140,000 people were killed by the US bombing of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, while a further 74,000 were killed in Nagasaki three days later. Nihon Hidankyo was founded by survivors to ...