Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is changing over time. While ...

The average American household gives "birth" to two children. And approximately every 20 or so years, those children undergo tiny mutations that make them stronger, more adaptable even, to the ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The coronavirus has infected more than 1.3 million people across the planet and killed some 72,000. Adding ...

Viruses mutate. That's a thing they do, and it happens all the time. In some cases, viral mutations can be bad: They can cause an already-malignant virus to become worse, more contagious or more ...

Genes account for only 2.5 percent of DNA in the human genetic blueprint, yet diseases can result not only from mutant genes, but from mutations of other DNA that controls genes. University of Utah ...

A new study has sparked fears that the coronavirus has mutated to become more contagious, but experts say there is no evidence these changes make it any more dangerous or transmissible than it already ...

NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Ali Mokdad of the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics about what the spread of COVID-19 variants in different parts of the world means for the U.S. Why ...

Mutating virus A study of some of the earliest Ebola cases in Sierra Leone reveals more than 300 genetic changes in the virus as it has leapt from person to person. These rapid changes could blunt the ...

Officials in Britain and South Africa claim new variants are more easily transmitted. There’s a lot more to the story, scientists say. By Apoorva Mandavilli Just as vaccines begin to offer hope for a ...