Researchers at Cardiff University have uncovered how a particularly severe form of DNA damage arises—shedding new light on ...

Our discovery set comprised 31 pRCCs and paired normal tissue or peripheral blood (Table 1). Three tumours were separate foci from case GK116; these appeared to be grossly distinct lesions and were ...

Most cancer researchers are convinced that cancer results from a handful of genetic mutations that kick a cell into uncontrolled growth. UC Berkeley genetics researcher Peter Duesberg disagrees, and ...

Patterns of distant metastases in HPV-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

Healthy cells work hard to maintain the integrity of our DNA, but occasionally, a chromosome can get separated from the others and break apart during cell division. The tiny fragments of DNA then get ...

Variations in the properties of arabica coffee, such as in taste, caffeine content and disease resistance, are determined by chromosome mutations, according to a recent study. But are these findings ...

Chromosomal abnormalities can include two basic categories: numerical or structural. A structural abnormality can include an alteration to the structure of the chromosome, as the name suggests.

The word mutation conjures many images in the popular mind, virtually all of them negative. Mutations in the human genome cause crippling birth abnormalities and are the source of innumerable genetic ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement. For example, humans have ...

In the presence of some disruptive elements, cancer cells are unable to replicate its DNA optimally. While known to be linked to the increase in genetic mutations, the exact mechanism at work remained ...