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Researchers have discovered that pregnancy can reprogram breast cells to turn off a cancer gene and turn on a gene that arrests cell growth.

Scientists have outlined the mechanisms behind cells fusing together, which could offer insight into treatments for a rare muscle disease.

Researchers have modeled the development and progression of high-grade serous ovarian cancer in mini-versions of the female reproductive organs of the mouse.

A new study by researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology shows that, surprisingly, the distribution of mutations in human tumors is more similar to that of chimpanzees and gorillas than that of humans.

Cornell researchers have sequenced and analyzed the genome of a single-celled alga that belongs to the closest lineage to terrestrial plants and provides many clues to how aquatic plants first colonized land.

Organisms carry long-term “memories” of their ancestral homelands that help them adapt to environmental change, according to a new study that involved raising chickens on the Tibetan Plateau and an adjacent lowland site.

A study involving fish that look nearly identical to the endangered Delta smelt finds that CRISPR can be a conservation and resource management tool.

Researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine analysed data from the UK Biobank, and found high risk of severe COVID-19 infection among European ancestry participants who carry two faulty copies of the APOE gene (termed e4e4).

One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neanderthals -- a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages, according to new research.

Researchers have used tissue engineering to grow a complete gut nervous system in a preclinical model.