General childhood infectious virus, called as BK virus may drive bladder cancer by being dormant in kidneys, providing new ...

The first 100 bases of many genes show excess mutations, revealing a major genomic weak spot that shapes disease risk and ...

Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific ...

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and ...

A new study reports that the locations where genes begin are particularly prone to mutations, and these genetic changes can ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break-when both sides of the DNA helix are cut at once.

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

After a finite number of divisions, cells simply give up. As each round of replication trims their telomeres-the protective ...