Pasca Lab specializes in growing three-dimensional organoid models from reprogrammed stem cells, which capture molecular changes during fetal brain-like development. Because the human brain cannot be ...

Learn how cats and humans can share key cancer mutations — and why those similarities could guide future treatment research.

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 ...

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the ...

A man sits outside and holds a slim menthol cigarette between his fingers. Close-up with focus on the cigarette. The study provided a comprehensive examination of how lifestyle and environmental ...

International team uncovers gene mutations that cause rare and aggressive cancer in both cats and humans. Their findings ...

A study from an international team of experts in veterinary medicine, human medicine and genomics provides the first ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic ...

One of the most intriguing findings was for cat breast cancers, more than half of which showed a mutation in a gene called ...