Tag: Dna

London: Shedding new light on why some people develop cancer while others do not, a new study has found that a person’s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that do not code for proteins, previously dismissed as “junk DNA”. This study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, […]

Hyderabad: The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, (IIT-H) on Thursday claimed that its researchers had unravelled working of a protein that repaired damaged DNA. According to the IIT-H, any damage to DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) can cause the sudden appearance of a harmless mole to catastrophic diseases like cancer. Nature has evolved techniques to not only […]

London: DNA differences between men and women may explain why cancer risk is higher in males, according to a new study. In findings published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers have reported that loss of function in certain genes of the sex-determining Y chromosome, which is present only in men, may cause […]