The green-cheeked parrot is more commonly known as the green-checked parakeet or the green-checked conure. However, it does belong to the Psittacidae, or parrot, family. These small parrots only ...

Although they are not considered threatened, green-cheeked parrots are facing some challenges. Find out more about these ...

Researchers in the group of Dr. Myriam Charpentier discovered a mutation in a gene in the legume Medicago truncatula that reprograms the signaling capacity of the plant so that it enhances ...

This means that the damage has multiple chances to generate harmful mutations, which can lead to cancer. While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms ...

The Garvan team revealed that this is not the case -- rather, the critical trigger is mutations in 'rogue clone' B cells. "This discovery fundamentally changes our understanding of how infections ...

Their findings, published in Nature Aging, describe a never-before-seen link between the two most accepted explanations: random genetic mutations and predictable epigenetic modifications.

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".