There has been an ongoing debate in the scientific community on whether cancer is simply a matter of “bad luck” or if it can be prevented. This debate was significantly bolstered by a study published ...

The order of cancer-driving mutations—genetic changes—plays an important role in whether tumors in the intestine can develop, new research reveals. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New ...

Siblings with autism often have DNA mutations that are very different from each other, which suggests that autism is often genetic happenstance, according to a new study. An analysis of the DNA of 170 ...

Wait, if you have blue eyes, we might actually be related—like, for real. It turns out that every person with blue eyes on ...