Quaker Oats has announced a recall of boxes of pancake and waffle mix over concerns of undeclared milk in the packaging. The recall, announced on Tuesday, affects a limited number of 2-pound boxes ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. The Quaker Oats Company has recalled a limited ...

One of the earliest strains of bird flu isolated from a human in Texas shows a unique constellation of mutations that enable it to more easily replicate in human cells and cause more severe ...

For 30 years, researchers have known that Huntington's is caused by an inherited mutation in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, but they didn't know how the mutation causes brain cell death.

Here are five top locations across the U.S. where you can catch a glimpse of wild parrots. The monk parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, also known as the Quaker parrot, is a species of true parrot in the ...

Video: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born ...

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 ...

Tiny songbirds such as grosbeaks and warblers migrate thousands of miles, flying at night and resting during the day, to and from their wintering grounds—and unlike many larger birds ...

Researchers have identified a novel genetic risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection, providing new insights into the virus’ ability to invade human cells. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that spreads COVID-19.

Some media outlets somewhat exaggeratedly took this to mean that we are one mutation away from bird flu "becoming the next COVID." There are currently no documented cases of human to human ...