A new study headed by teams at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and Open Targets has indicated how mutations that cause cancer drug resistance fall ...

Genetic disorders can occur due to mutations in one gene (monogenic), multiple genes (multifactorial inheritance), and mutation in one or more chromosomes. Point mutations are where one nucleotide in ...

Mutations in the tumor suppressor TP53 are a common cause of cancer, making the altered protein an attractive target for ...

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...

A common mutation in the KRAS gene is associated with improved overall survival in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) compared with other variants, in part because the mutation appears to lead to ...

Think of the bone marrow as the body’s factory for blood and immune cells. In myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), that factory breaks down—producing too few cells, and the ones that do roll off the line ...

In Brazil, the early detection of genetic alterations in lung cancer through liquid biopsies could be a valuable tool for expediting diagnoses and guiding patient treatment.

Many people are familiar with histamine, a biological molecule that serves as a key driver of allergic reactions and other ...

Cerebrospinal fluid circulating tumor DNA for the detection and characterization of leptomeningeal metastasis in non-small cell lung cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual ...