Two Connecticut high school seniors, Meera Kannan and Gabrielle Bridgewater, have published their study findings, titled ...

Researchers from The University of Manchester—in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo—have ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Torsional stress in chromatin plays a fundamental role in cellular functions, influencing key processes such as transcription, replication, and chromatin organization. Transcription and other ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major health problem, with an alarming increase of early-onset CRC (EO-CRC) cases among individuals under 50 years of age. This trend shows the urgent need for ...

The Knox County village of Niobrara, Nebraska, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) are partnering on a special ...

John Bertram Reinitz, a professor in the Departments of Statistics, Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology ...