Scientists now recognize that spontaneous DNA errors, which we acquire in early development all the way until our last breath ...

The human immune system is finely tuned to detect and destroy viral threats. But this same defense system can misfire. When ...

Aston University bioscientist Dr John Reynolds has won a £125,000 Springboard grant from the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) for research into neurodegeneration caused by a rare genetic disease.

Researchers have identified a specific class of brain neurons that dies during multiple sclerosis because inflammation ...

The human genome consists of 3 billion base pairs, and when a cell divides, it takes about seven hours to complete making a copy of its DNA. That's almost 120,000 base pairs per second. At that ...

If severe DNA damage is not repaired, the consequences for the health of cells and tissues are dramatic. A study led by researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt, part of the Rhine-Main University ...

A cancer drug target already being investigated in clinical trials turns out to be doing something even more consequential ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Recent research on bowhead whale DNA repair has led to one ...

A new pan-cancer study has uncovered a shared vulnerability across multiple aggressive cancers and sheds light on the role ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...