Worldwide, cancer persists as one of the most important diseases that affect the human being. The knowledge on the molecular bases of cancer generated during the last decades has been successfully ...

Cancer researchers have long treated genetic chaos and epigenetic rewiring as separate engines of disease, two parallel ...

As people live longer, the gut quietly accumulates damage that can tip the balance between healthy tissue renewal and chronic ...

Epigenetic theory holds that a type of "second genetic code" exists on top of our DNA. Scientists think that environmental factors — from our diets to the chemicals we're exposed to, perhaps even our ...