When melanocyte stem cells (McSCs) encounter significant DNA damage—particularly dangerous double-strand breaks, the stem ...

The invention has made it onto TIME’s 2025 Best Inventions list, in the food and drink category, and would be the first new ...

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Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Work described in this story was made possible in part by federal funding supported by taxpayers. At Harvard Medical School, the future of efforts like this — done in service to humanity — now hangs ...

“We hope that this new ability to study somatic mutations in non-invasive tissue biopsies from healthy individuals becomes a useful tool for cancer prevention, by improving our ability to identify ...

Cheek swabs to detect mutated genes ‘could become useful cancer prevention tool’ - Researchers analysed swabs from 1,042 ...

Researchers have refined a powerful DNA sequencing tool that can uncover hidden mutations that occur naturally in our bodies as we age. In the largest study to date, they have used the tool to provide ...

The risk of older fathers passing on disease-causing mutations to their children is higher than we thought. Genome sequencing has revealed that among men in their early thirties, around 1 in 50 sperm ...