Recent technological advances have made it possible to directly measure the frequency of rare nucleotide substitution mutations in human germline DNA. Semen is an ideal source of genetic material ...

More information: Donghui Choe et al, A live bacteria enzyme assay for identification of human disease mutations and drug screening, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025 ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

A new study has revealed that a single genetic mutation, found in all modern humans but absent in Neanderthals and Denisovans, could have played a role in the evolution of speech and language.