Genetics

Canadian researchers expect to accelerate the war on cancer by tapping into a global network of hundreds of thousands of people who volunteer their idle computer time to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems. The research team,...

A new technique could pave the way toward screening people at risk for lung cancer for the genetic changes that may foreshadow malignancies, researchers from the University of Colorado say."The most successful way to reduce mortality in...

Japanese investigators from the RIKEN Research Institute are reporting in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society that they created fluorescent DNA probes that can attach to a specific DNA gene sequence, and detect...