Researchers in the lab of Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) member Xing Wang have discovered the influential role of ...

Black women experience disproportionately elevated risks of developing and dying from early-onset breast cancer. New research ...

Did you know that a simple genetic test called DNA testing is all that is needed to understand if you are at risk of ...

Thanks to effective therapies, more and more people are now able to live with or after cancer in the long term. Consequently, the number of patients affected by the long-term effects of their ...

Blood tests have proved to be a promising tool for detecting and monitoring cancer. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a new ...

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.

Many repetitive regions of the genome have been considered "junk DNA" because the available technologies did not allow them ...

A new study -- co-written by Konstantinos Mamis, an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Wyoming -- ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cancer Research UK is funding hundreds of genetic tests to personalise cancer treatment.

Utah State University scientists recently unveiled a new type of CRISPR biotechnology with the ability to selectively target ...

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. Healthy cells can normally fix ...

It’s in vaping’s DNA. Initially marketed as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes carry some ...