Study results indicate that mutation strength may shape both tumor–immune system interactions and immunotherapy response.

Genetic ancestry plays a key role in determining the behavior of head and neck tumors and may help explain why African-American patients survive for half as long as their counterparts of European ...

Google DeepMind’s research team recently published in the international academic journal *Nature* the development process of ...

Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers than our primate cousins. The change affects a protein used by immune cells ...

A study led by Dr. Li Chuanyun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has revealed how recently evolved human-specific genes—critical for ...

That team has now moved on to human patients, with a two-pronged approach: an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine, followed by a personalized one. They have also run trials of personalized vaccines for the ...

The rarest cancer on record did not begin in a human organ at all. It started inside a parasite, then crossed a biological ...

The first fifty years of Mendelism. The introduction of Mendelism into human genetics / Milo Keynes. Galton's theory of ancestral inheritance / Michael Bulmer. The reception of Mendelism by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Juergen Eckhardt leads Bayer’s impact investment unit, Leaps by Bayer. Some of the year's notable breakthroughs include the first ...