Unexpected mutations in blood stem cells may help protect against Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal ...

Inbreeding of dogs can lead to blindness, deafness, and genetic diseases. Learn how it impacts generations of dogs and what ...

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.

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set of complexes called the oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos) system acts like ...

Inside a large walk-in refrigerator on the Urbana-Champaign campus, thousands of envelopes hold the fate of global food security, not to mention a significant portion of the ...

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.

Research from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute, an agency beleaguered by funding cuts and censorship, finds that ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues.

CRISPR-based gene editing holds great promise, but off-target effects remain a major concern, especially across diverse genetic backgrounds. A new study presents a web-based tool that enhances ...

Paraphase – a computational tool that accurately resolves and analyzes paralogous genes – unlocks the difficult-to-analyze ...