What do your genes have to do with growing old? Quite a lot. But is it due to the actual DNA, or the way those genes are expressed? KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more on new research that ...
As we age, our cells accumulate DNA mutations. If any of these mutations confer a growth advantage to a self-renewing or long-lived progenitor cell, its lineage can expand. The progenitor cells that ...
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 ...