Mayo Clinic says that Lynch syndrome is caused by genes that are passed from parents to their children. I’ll let them explain: “Genes are pieces of DNA. DNA is like a set of instructions for every ...

“She is undoubtedly the only known case in the world,” said Thierry Peyrard, a medical biologist at Établissement français du ...

A mutation is any detectable and heritable change in nucleotide sequence that causes a change in genotype and is transmitted to daughter cells and succeeding generations. The Somatic Mosaicism ...

Precision oncology has entered a new phase, as data sets mature and a new wave of tools emerges to help clinicians manage ...

Taking ‘baby aspirin' doses daily cuts the heightened risk of bowel cancer in half in those with Lynch Syndrome, a genetic disorder that faces a higher risk of several cancers, according to a new ...

A single mutation in the H5N1 strain of avian influenza that is infecting cattle in the US could make it more likely to infect humans, according to a new scientific paper. The worrying finding has ...

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