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Can cancer cells' ability to rapidly change their genetic mass be used as a weapon against malignant tumors? Researchers at Uppsala University have produced a substance that has shown promising results in both animal experiments and in human cancer cells.

A new study published in PLOS ONE finds that over 50% of Americans will exchange genetic data for financial compensation.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered why obesity causes high blood pressure and identified potential ways of treating that form of high blood pressure.

Researchers turn back the biological hands of time, making adult cells revert to a primitive state with the potential to replace and repair retinal blood vessels.

Molecular geneticists have identified the signaling pathway which enables mitochondria to call for help when under stress.

A team of Cornell researchers used a new cellular profiling technology to probe and catalog the activity of almost every kind of cell involved in muscle repair.

An international study published in the journal Cell, has described 109 genetic variants associated with eight psychiatric disorders: anorexia nervosa, autism, ADHD, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette Syndrome, in a total of about 230,000 patients worldwide.

Researchers have demonstrated that a protein called Atox1, which is found in higher concentrations in breast cancer cells, participates in the process by which cancer cells migrate.

Turning genes on and off as needed allows an organism to adapt to changes in the environment—provided the organism has a specific regulatory design in place. Scientists have shown that under rare or rapidly changing conditions, the fitness of a population of bacteria can increase simply by producing a higher number of copies of one and the same gene. The results are highly relevant in resistance to antibiotics treatment.

On 6 March, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral. On board: 250 test tubes from the University of Zurich containing adult human stem cells. These stem cells will develop into bone, cartilage and other organs during the month-long stay in space.