Vertex has just filed for approval of Kalydeco for CF patients aged 18 and older who have the R117H mutation, the most common residual function mutation, which could add another 300 patients to ...

Patients aged 6 years and older, weighing 25 kg or more, who have one of the following gating (class III) CFTR mutations: G551D, G1244E, G1349D, G178R, G551S, S1251N, S1255P, S549N, or S549R. Also for ...

The pair had helped identify a still-unnamed disease, which they had tied to a particular gene and to a particular somatic mutation—a genetic change that had not been passed down from a parent ...

But genetic analysis of the virus that infected her body showed ominous mutations that researchers suggest potentially allowed it to target human cells more easily and cause severe disease — a ...

ANOTHER bird flu outbreak has been confirmed at a farm in England, as experts fear the virus is one mutation from becoming pandemic. The government said all poultry on the infected site ...

The second pair, HumVar 3, consists of all the 13,032 human disease-causing mutations from UniProt and 8,946 human nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) without annotated ...

Combined infection with bird flu and human flu could lead to mutations of new viruses that could have dangerous public health consequences, agencies have warned. This is following the news that ...

Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born ...

Most of us remember two things from high school biology: that mitochondria are the powerhouses of cells and that we inherit stable sets of chromosomes from our two parents. Both truisms are only ...

A California Department of Food and Agriculture technician perform tests on chickens for bird flu in 2006 at the Best Live Poultry & Fish store in Sylmar. (Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press) ...

From mutations that require certain rods to those you need to see an NPC to get, you’ll never need another guide to find out how to catch your favorite mutated fish again. For the fish that can ...