When you’re under attack, you fight back. You gather your troops and attack the invading enemy, hoping to wound and defeat them, while supporting and...
Researchers have identified the role that a four-stranded version of DNA may play in the role of cancer progression, and suggest that it may be used...
Darwin’s stuffed pigeons, the letter which first coined the term ‘genetics’ and a paper by Crick and Watson which helped decode DNA all feature in...
̽»¨Ö±²¥process by which a mother’s diet during pregnancy can permanently affect her offspring’s attributes, such as weight, could be strongly influenced...
An international collaboration of researchers has identified five new gene regions that increase a woman’s risk of developing endometrial cancer, one...
Genetic tests that provide an estimate of an individual’s risk of developing diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease do not appear to motivate...
Some of the world’s most valuable books and manuscripts – texts which have altered the very fabric of our understanding – will go on display in...
̽»¨Ö±²¥world of epigenetics – where molecular ‘switches’ attached to DNA turn genes on and off – has just got bigger with the discovery by a team of...