Researchers are adding new evidence to the emerging concept that 'silent' or synonymous mutations may have crucial consequences. Their study showed how a synonymous mutation in one gene can ...

Bacteria can acquire resistance to antibiotics through random mutations in their DNA that provide them with an advantage that helps them survive. Finding genetic mutations, and discovering how they ...

The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in bats, like many viruses. To make the leap and infect another species, zoonotic viruses might acquire genetic mutations that enable or ...