Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a new study from Duke University. The findings, published in PLOS Biology, ...

A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a new pathway through which mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 gene—found very frequently in human tumors—hijack DNA ...

A new study isolated DNA from the tumours of 500 cats across 13 different tumour types and mapped the sequence of 1,000 genes often found mutated in human cancers.

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

A systematic review of 52 scientific papers submitted to a world-leading clinical genetics journal from multiple scientists ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

In people destined to get Alzheimer's in their mid-40s, one protein can delay the onset of the disease by about 20 years.

Researchers isolated a phage of the Microviridae family from human feces, representing the smallest phage infecting the gut ...

Cats are exposed to some of the same environmental cancer risks as their owners, which means that some causes could, at least in part, be shared. By sequencing DNA from tissue samples that had already ...