In a nutshell Cambridge researchers developed a new DNA classification system that reveals hidden patterns in cancer, ...

Kanazawa University and colleagues have achieved a breakthrough in understanding sperm DNA packaging. Using high-speed atomic ...

Recently, Professor Frédéric Veyrier at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and his team developed a new genetic tool based on a family of specific enzymes called Ssn that allows ...

A major new study has revealed that the genes we inherit at birth play a much larger role in cancer than previously ...

Every organ in our body contains a small number of adult stem cells that are specific to its niche. These cells act like a ...

Scientists found that dormant viral genes can be reactivated in kidney cancer, prompting an immune response, offering new ...

DNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of ...

A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that experienced in war, can leave epigenetic “scars” on DNA that endures for generations. In the early 1980s, the Syrian regime carried out a ...

reveals that a distinct subset of mismatch repair genes are key drivers of Huntington’s disease and how the disease affects specific types of neurons. “We demonstrate the same DNA mismatch ...