An international team of scientists has analyzed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and ...

UW researchers found potential new treatments for a rare pediatric brain cancer each year that has a median survival time of ...

Cancer is often seen as a disease of chance, but genetics can play a significant role in determining a person’s risk. Certain inherited gene mutations, like those in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, can ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a small RNA molecule called miR-182 that can suppress cancer-causing genes in mice with glioblastoma mulitforme (GBM), a deadly and incurable type of ...

Up to 5% of Americans may carry genetic variants associated with cancer risk, according to a cross-sectional analysis.The ...

An international team of scientists believes it has found cancer's master switch with the discovery of a gene they dubbed "Pokemon." Like the cartoon characters -- tiny creatures with bad tempers -- ...

In a novel use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, which can be deployed to switch genes off, researchers from Germany, the UK and Spain have developed a multiplexed screening approach to study and model ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, suggests a new preclinical study from Weill Cornell ...

New prostate cancer research from an international team led by the Center for Genetic Epidemiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has yielded discoveries that could improve screening and ...

An international team of scientists analysed the ongoing colonization by two retroviruses of the germline of koalas and ...

The way DNA folds inside the nucleus of brain cells may hold the key to understanding a devastating form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, suggests a new preclinical study. The findings offer a new ...