Somatic mutations, the DNA changes that occur as our bodies grow and age, not only hold an important key to cancer but are ...

For decades, technical limitations and entrenched expectations shaped chromosome counts, illustrating how accepted scientific ideas can persist despite conflicting evidence.

Researchers in a Mayo Clinic-led study have shown how to detect a broad range of DNA mutations in noncancerous human tissues ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...

Direct conversion of human blood cells into neural stem cells erases nearly all epigenetic age over a protracted fifty-day ...

A comparative study of rats and humans quantifies how somatic polyploidy, proliferation and hypertrophy each contribute to ...