By late middle age, as many as four in ten men have quietly lost the Y chromosome in some blood cells. Scientists are now ...

After nearly 40 years, a new study has found that children of Chernobyl workers have mutations within their DNA ...

New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase with age is clear: 40% of 60-year-old men show loss of Y, but 57% of 90-year-olds.

Genetic studies now identify millions of variants across human populations, yet most disease-associated signals fall outside protein-coding regions. This ...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in developing an artificial DNA base pair that is based on a different ...

A recent study has confirmed that the Chernobyl radiation disaster caused DNA mutations in the children of workers exposed to ...

They found an average of 2.65 clustered de novo mutations (cDNMs) per child, compared to 0.88 cDNMs in children of unexposed parents.

A recent study confirms that children of Chernobyl cleanup workers exhibit significant DNA mutations linked to their fathers' radiation exposure following the 1986 nuclear disaster, demonstrating a ...

Hyderabad: Cancer research is currently undergoing a massive paradigm shift. Once thought to be triggered by a single genetic ...

A mysterious RNA found in breast cancer led scientists to uncover an entire hidden class of cancer-specific RNAs across ...

Researchers from the University of Bonn have shown that children of cleanup workers at the power plant have an increased ...

This loss, evident in almost half of older men, is associated with serious diseases throughout the body and a shorter ...