It’s a quiet day in Wheaton, and Jessica Wozniak is in her kitchen, making a cup of tea. The mother of a preschooler is ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 85 and healthy apart from polycythemia vera, for which I take aspirin. I was interested in the new blood ...

Cell-free DNA testing uses a small amount of a person's blood and tests it for a large number of cancers. A positive test could indicate that the person has a certain type of cancer in theory before ...

Mutations in BRCA2—a gene known to repair damaged DNA and suppress tumor formation—can predict an individual's predisposition ...

A study from Cornell researchers could enable a quantum leap forward in identifying and deciphering cancer-driving genetic ...

Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

A DNA nanomachine selectively targets skin cancer by detecting microRNA-7, activating phototherapy and releasing chemotherapy ...

It's time for researchers to reconsider the current paradigm of cancer as a genetic disease, argue authors of a new essay.

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer and the third leading cause of cancer related deaths in men and women ...

Scientists identify mutation patterns in healthy stomach lining, offering new insights into the earliest steps of cancer ...