Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger ...

Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have finally found a way to correlate mutations with observable characteristics in human cells, taking a step towards understanding how diversified mutations in ...

The findings, say the researchers, provide a basis for future exploration of the activity of energy metabolism pathways in clonal plasma cells of patients newly diagnosed with the disease. Increased ...

The discovery, led by researchers at Dana-Farber, could pave the way for interventions to reduce the risk of blood cancers among people with sickle-cell disease. A large-scale genomic analysis, led by ...

A common, spontaneous mutation in blood stem cells, which has been linked to higher risks of blood cancer and cardiovascular disease, may promote these diseases by altering the stem cells' programming ...

A recent article under review at the Nature Portfolio journal and currently available on the Research Square* preprint server analyzed the factors influencing the durability of the severe acute ...