An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025. Many people know the causes of cancer are partly genetic. But how do your genes, which contribute so much of what makes you you, ...

Translocations, in genetics, happen when chromosomes break and the pieces attach to other chromosomes. This mixing of genetic material has important results. The resultant chromosomes are lacking in ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have demonstrated an intriguing new variation on the CRISPR gene-editing system, which involves fixing a mutation on one chromosome by ...

A woman had cancer 5 times before she turned 36, the first time when she was two. A study found she has never-before-seen mutations that were thought to be impossible to survive. It shows the ...

Chris Kaelin, a geneticist at Stanford Medicine, recently solved the riddle of why so many orange cats are male. In a groundbreaking study, Kaelin and his team discovered a unique mutation that ...