Adaptive tracking theory of molecular evolution challenges mutation neutrality

For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...
BioTechniques

Synonymous mutations break their statement of neutrality

Although previously thought to be neutral, research in yeast suggests that synonymous point mutations may have strongly nonneutral effects. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan (MI, ...
BioTechniques

Novel tool for detecting hidden genetic mutations

A graph-based computational tool for detecting previously invisible genetic mutations has been developed. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; USA) and the University of ...
Case Western Reserve University

Post_Doc position in France, Computational modeling of genetic mutations at cellular level

Context. Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of severe rare diseases where the combined effect of seizures, most often drug resistant, and the non-seizures consequences of ...