Scientists have recently been learning more about the importance of small bits of circular genetic material known as ...

Cancer isn't just about broken genes—it's about broken architecture. Imagine a city where roads suddenly vanish, cutting off ...

Small, cancer-associated DNA circles "hitchhike" on chromosomes during cell division to spread efficiently to daughter cells by co-opting a process used to maintain cellular identity through ...

Researchers have identified a stress-activated control mechanism that helps breast cancer cells reshape gene activity to ...

Researchers have found a small but powerful switch inside breast cancer cells that helps them survive stressful conditions.

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have shown that DNA inflexibility, or rigidity, inside the ...

Germline pathogenic variants (gPVs) occur in a subset of patients with ovarian cancer, with the highest prevalence among those with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, followed by Asian and Hispanic patients, ...

Epigenetics is the study of various heritable alterations that control gene expression without changing the DNA sequence. 1 The name epigenetics comes from the Greek prefix “epi”, which means on top ...

Scientists have long known that Black women with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer and those who live in disadvantaged ...