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Your morning routine significantly impacts long-term health and cancer risk. Simple daily habits like morning exercise, a ...

In a quiet lab at Utrecht University, researchers have built a tool that lets you watch one of life’s most serious crises ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation.

Mitochondrial DNA has long been treated as a workhorse record of cellular history, but new research suggests it also hides a subtle and previously overlooked form of damage. By uncovering this cryptic ...

We all know stress is bad for your health, but it does not stop at heart disease. Chronic stress can lead to damage and impaired repair at a cellular level.

The findings may have important implications for diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. A newly identified form of DNA damage inside mitochondria, the small structures that supply energy to our ...

Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

Scientists searching for new ways to combat cancer think they may have uncovered a promising new lead in the DNA of the ...