Cells in the human body accumulate cancer-promoting mutations throughout their lifespan, yet these mutations rarely drive tumour formation. Tumours in a given tissue usually originate from a specific ...

A new preclinical study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published in Nature ...

Study: Characterizing the evolutionary dynamics of cancer proliferation in single-cell clones with SPRINTER. Image Credit: Anusorn Nakdee/Shutterstock.com In a recent study published in Nature ...

Every day, our bodies perform around 330 billion cell divisions to keep us alive and functioning. These divisions rely on the cell cycle, which has been in place since the earliest bacteria. The ...

MIT researchers discovered that the genome’s 3D structure doesn’t vanish during cell division as previously thought. Instead, tiny loops called microcompartments remain (and even strengthen) while ...