Scientists have unveiled a powerful new tool called PerturbFate that could change how researchers tackle diseases driven by ...

A melanoma cell can dodge a targeted drug in dozens of different ways, each driven by a different genetic mutation. But what ...

Melanoma kills roughly 8,000 Americans each year, and a stubborn share of those deaths trace back to the same problem: tumors ...

Scientists have identified mutations in the CPD gene as a key cause of a rare congenital hearing loss, revealing how disruptions in arginine and nitric oxide signaling damage sensory cells in the ear.

Researchers have discovered new regions of the human genome particularly vulnerable to mutations. These altered stretches of DNA can be passed down to future generations and are important for how we ...

An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025. Many people know the causes of cancer are partly genetic. But how do your genes, which contribute so much of what makes you you, ...

What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not ...

Autism spectrum disorder is complex; it presents differently in different patients, and the causes are still unclear, even though hundreds of small changes in gene sequences have been linked to an ...

Biological aging undeniably affects human cognitive function. 1 However, how this happens—the underlying factors, interactions, and processes—remains unclear. He and his team want to understand how ...