Many kinds of somatic mutations have no obvious effect on an organism, because genetically normal body cells are able to compensate for the mutated cells. Nonetheless, certain other mutations can ...

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Thus, beneficial DNA changes do not happen more often simply because an organism could benefit from them. Moreover, even if an organism has acquired a beneficial mutation during its lifetime ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Rod Bremner at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health in Toronto, has made a significant breakthrough in understanding cancer susceptibility. Their ...