Psoriasis is not caused or spread by spontaneous genetic mutations in the skin, according to a new study. These findings allow for researchers to examine other avenues that may play a part in the ...

Genetic analysis of psoriasis shows somatic mutations are not linked to the development or the spread of the condition. Psoriasis -- a chronic skin condition -- is not caused or spread by spontaneous ...

Spontaneous mutations tend to reduce fitness in populations of living organisms, but this erosion of fitness is countered by natural selection. This study uses the first mutation accumulation ...

Discussion of the potential of using pluripotent stem cells for tissue transplantation has raised issues about the frequency and types of spontaneous mutation in these cells. In the March 19 ...

Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s College London, where he worked on projects involving Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome. Johannes holds an MSci in Neuroscience from King’s ...

DNA mutates regularly, for better or worse, driving both evolution and disease. Researchers at the University of Surrey have now found evidence that some of these spontaneous mutations could be caused ...

All people have two copies of every gene – one copy inherited from each parent. The NF1 gene mutation is dominant, which means that only one of the two copies of the gene needs to have the mutation to ...

Neurofibromatosis type 2 is caused by a change in the NF2 gene located on chromosome 22. This gene encodes a protein known as merlin. Mutations in the NF2 gene disrupt the function of merlin, which is ...

Cancer results from a combination of spontaneous mutations that arise with age—just call it “bad luck”—and environmental exposures to carcinogens such as tobacco, ultraviolet light or viruses. But the ...

Psoriasis — a chronic skin condition — is not caused or spread by spontaneous genetic mutations in the skin, new research suggests. The team, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and collaborators, ...