UC San Diego professor Ludmil Alexandrov will lead an international team of scientists awarded $25 million to research cancer mutations. The award comes from Cancer Grand Challenges, a collaboration ...

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 ...

Aging is associated with increased risk for nearly every lung disease, including acute conditions like pneumonia and chronic diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, idiopathic pulmonary ...

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

Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.

If you’d asked me at the start of the year what I was expecting to make my game of the year shortlist out of known titles, ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins ...

Many of us might reach for the hair dye the moment those first grey hairs appear. But a new study suggests we may be covering up one of the body's most ingenious defences against cancer.

(Yevgen Timashov/Getty Images) Health risks posed by synthetic chemicals in our environment could potentially linger in our ...

Over the past decade, however, a wave of technological advances has begun to expand the druggable proteome. These include covalent inhibitors (such as sotorasib), chemical proteomics, and AI-enabled ...