While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

A common type of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be more dangerous than we thought. The virus, known as beta-HPV, was ...

Researchers have discovered a new genetic link to the most common type of bone cancer among children and young ...

Sections of DNA once dismissed as dormant and useless could in fact be recruited to fight certain types of drug-resistant ...

King’s College London researchers discovered that parts of our DNA once thought to be “junk” can actually help destroy cancer cells. In some blood cancers, damaged genes trigger chaos in these DNA ...

Circulating Tumor DNA as a Prognostic Biomarker for Recurrence in Patients With Locoregional Esophagogastric Cancers With a Pathologic Complete Response PD-1 inhibition is effective in patients with ...

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You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

Our DNA is arranged into chromosomes that carry a kind of protective shield at their ends, called telomeres. These protective ...