The biological reasons for why this may be are unclear, but the researchers speculated that potential chromosomal abnormalities in the eggs of older women and mutations in the sperm of older men may be a factor.
But it does back studies that also show fathers are responsible for mutations and that these mutations increase with age.
In an attempt to elude the pesky pumps and overcome mutations, Bristol-Myers scientists engineered more than 1, 200 taxane molecules.
In humans, some retroviruses may behave in similar ways, causing diseases by jumping around and creating mutations.
It would take between five and nine mutations for the H5N1 flu to become airborne, scientists said, which is a low range.
His group will attempt to nail down exactly how many mutations - and which - are sufficient to make the H5N1 avian flu virus airborne, and whether these particular mutations can also make other bird flu viruses airborne.
Most common tumors have innumerable gene mutations driving their growth and that these mutations are changing all the time.
For a great many years evolution was conceived as being driven externally by environmental pressures and internally by mutations in DNA. Mutations in the DNA created genetic diversity and when there were changes in the environment, those animals with the mutated DNA were sudden in a more favorable position.
While the Nature study looked at how a bird flu virus could become airborne through mutations and re-assortment with other viruses, the Science study suggests mutations alone could do the trick.
Nor, the geneticists complained, had there been enough time for natural selection to do its work, given what they had discovered about the rate at which mutations occur, and the fact that most mutations are deleterious.
Older fathers and therefore genetic mutations have been linked with neurological conditions because the brain depends on more genes for its development and regulation.
For they have survived the vicissitudes of environmental fluctuations, parasites and the accumulation of mutations, all things that biologists have suggested promote and sustain the need to mix the genes.
Kalydeco got them for additional, future indications in other mutations and in combination with another drug.
Unless a genomic functionality is actively protected by selection, it will accumulate deleterious mutations and will cease to be functional.
This allows the world's top flu experts to study the virus and look for mutations that could make it more dangerous.
It also enables authorities to monitor outbreaks of bird flu for the dangerous mutations and so nip a potential epidemic in the bud.
Instead scientists and doctors are looking deeper at what is going wrong inside cancerous cells - a tumour can have 100, 000 genetic mutations and these alter over time.
Now is the time to make sure we get this right through rigorous basic and clinical studies that define which mutations are dangerous, and distinguish useful from unnecessary interventions.
Working independently, Meyerson's team at Dana-Farber and a group of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital led by cancer geneticist Daniel Haber analyzed tumor samples from lung cancer patients who'd taken Iressa, and searched for mutations in the EGFR gene.
We think we can actually model the mutations and limit it to the ones that are going to be biologically active or dangerous and then build vaccines ahead of time for the potentially dangerous strain of avian flu, if it comes along.
Longevity genes appear to slow down the aging process by making cells and tissues more stress-resistant, better able to withstand the inevitable environmental insults that accumulate over a lifetime from bad diet, inflammation, radiation, genetic mutations and toxic chemical by-products called free radicals.
In other domestic news, the World Health Organization is watching out for mutations and possible human-to-human transmission of the new H7N9 bird flu strain after two family cluster cases - a father-and-son cluster and a husband-and-wife cluster - were detected in Shanghai, China Daily reports.
Hit cells that have one mutation with a a powerful drug, and nearby cancer cells with other mutations will simply move in and fill the void.
Mutations are tiny, and difficult to spot without knowing in advance what mutations to look for.
The researchers compiled information from 34 centres in eight countries, 384 comparing women with the gene mutations who had cancer in one breast and 209 women with the gene mutations who had cancer in both breasts.
But scientists revealed yesterday that there are many such mutations, and that patients without them benefit.
Electrophoresis can pick up these size differences, and thus identify the mutations involved.
Many east Africans, southern Arabians and Indians share particular mutations of the genes in question which are found in energy-generating structures known as mitochondria.
Humans are believed to have between 80, 000 essential proteins coded by between 20, 000 to 30, 000 genes, and while some genetic mutations can be tolerated, others are incredibly detrimental.
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The next step will be to understand what's driving this diversity in different cancers and identify key driver mutations that are common throughout all parts of a tumour.
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