BC Cancer, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have pinpointed what could be the early ...

Researchers have pinpointed what could be the early genetic origins of breast cancer -- cancer-like mutations appearing in the cells of healthy women. In a new study, the international collaborators ...

“It’s striking to see cancer-like mutations happening silently and at low levels in the cells of perfectly healthy women,” said lead senior author Dr. Samuel Aparicio, a professor of ...

In a development that health experts have warned might come, Canadian officials report that the bird flu virus isolate ...

Scientists in British Columbia have identified a new mutation of the virus that could make it easier to infect people.

Figure 1: AZFa region of the human Y chromosome. Figure 2: De novo deletion at USP9Y splice-donor site in azoospermic man WHT2780.

A new study led by Harvard Medical School researchers shed new light on how even a single defective copy of the ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), BC Cancer, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have pinpointed what could be the early genetic origins of ...

Some EGFR mutations are like deleting letters or words to these instructions (called deletions) or adding letters or words (called insertions). Point mutations are like misspelled words where only ...