Cells have to protect the genome, and there are mechanisms in place to repair DNA damage that does arise. But sometimes those mechanisms fail. New research reported in Nature Communications has ...

Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximize their chances of survival, a phenomenon that's been observed for the first time by researchers at ...

The secret to the naked mole-rats' extraordinarily long life may lie in subtle changes to just four amino acids, researchers ...

Researchers at Spain’s CNIO have mapped 20,000 distinct DNA repair “scars,” building the first human REPAIRome. This atlas ...

Adding PARP inhibitor niraparib to standard prostate cancer treatment delays disease progression in men with certain DNA ...

A powerful new drug combination—niraparib added to standard prostate cancer therapy—has been shown to significantly delay ...

Naked mole rat's unique DNA repair mechanism may hold key to longevity and age-related research breakthroughs.

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Scientists in Helsinki studied nearly 400 dog families to see how new DNA mutations arise in puppies. They found that older ...

An international study has shown how and when entirely new gene mutations, known as de novo mutations, originate in dogs. A ...