Human cancers exhibit genomic instability and an increased mutation rate due to underlying defects in DNA repair. Cancer cells are often defective in one of six major DNA repair pathways, namely: ...

Did you know that you have a second genome? Small cellular organelles called mitochondria contain their own circular DNA. What happens to your cells when this DNA mutates? Similar to the nuclear ...

There's been plenty of great press – you might even say hype – about IBM's “DNA transistor,” a new type of gene sequencing technology that had come out of the company's labs. In 2009 Wired said the ...

I recently sent off a tube of saliva containing enough of my DNA for one of those companies to tell me about my ancestry. I thought I knew my ancestry pretty well and it turns out that I did. The only ...