All Stories: Mutations

Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2 mutates in order to maximise its survival chances.

LONDON: Scientists have found that smoking a pack a day of cigarettes can cause 150 damaging changes to a smoker's lung cells each year. The...

PARIS, FRANCE: Scientists on Wednesday unveiled patterns in the largest catalogue of human genetic variation ever assembled, highlighting mutations mistakenly blamed for causing rare diseases and others that may play an unexpected role in ill health.