The discovery may explain why cutting edge CAR T-cell therapy has managed to revolutionized treatment for blood cancer but ...

Logan Cyr, 16, joined a global accelerator program for teens that enables him to research cures for genetic malformations.

A mutation in the immune protein FasL may make humans more vulnerable to solid tumours, but scientists say it could be fixed ...

Microglia replacement therapy helps treat people with a rare genetic condition called ALSP, suggesting the approach could ...

A groundbreaking study led by Prof. Bo Peng at Fudan University demonstrates that microglia replacement effectively halts the ...

Turtles have very low cancer rates, even in large, long-lived species. Their bodies show strong natural cancer defenses.

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

This genetic mutation makes the FasL protein vulnerable to being disabled by plasmin, a tumor-associated enzyme. This vulnerability seems unique to humans and is not found in non-human primates ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Unexpected mutations in blood stem cells may help protect against Alzheimer’s disease. A new study published in the journal ...