The research team at Seoul National University Hospital announced that it has identified the genetic cause of sensory nerve ...

Precision oncology has entered a new phase, as data sets mature and a new wave of tools emerges to help clinicians manage ...

An otherwise active, healthy 39-year-old, Marisa Peters was a mother of three boys and still nursing her 16-month-old when she was initially diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer.

Jurassic Park” is literally about clones — dinosaurs brought back to life by DNA extracted from mosquitoes preserved in amber ...

A new international study, published in Nature, offers groundbreaking evidence that environmental exposures—particularly air ...

The first systematic whole genome sequencing study of how chemotherapy damages healthy tissues has shown that many, but not ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Researchers working on an incurable blood cancer can now use a new lab model that could make testing potential new treatments and diagnostics easier and quicker, new research has found.

Rare, deadly, and often missed, some skin cancers develop in areas that rarely see the sun. Scientists are still learning about them, but here's what we know.

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

Humans and chimpanzees share a close evolutionary relationship, genetically linking us. As a result, the two species can pass ...