This discovery could one day help improve how doctors predict and treat aggressive cancers. "The interaction between inherited genetic factors and the timing of mutations in the tumor's DNA is ...

In fact, while some prostate cancers are aggressive, others grow so slowly they may never cause harm. Distinguishing between these types remains difficult, as the genetic differences underlying them ...

elegans. As Randy Cassada (University of Freiburg) first noted in 1987, wild C. elegans show two distinct behavior patterns in the presence of food. Solitary strains like the N2 common lab worm ...

For years, researchers have known that two key proteins tend to characterize Alzheimer's disease in the brain. Amyloid makes up the senile plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients ...

Learn about our Editorial Policies. “While more work needs to be done, we think this approach has the potential to prospectively identify a subgroup of patients who are destined to develop aggressive, ...