National Cancer Institute/Unsplash An estimated 170,000 Australians were diagnosed with cancer in 2025.Authors Sarah Diepstraten Senior Research ...

Experiments from the 1940s established a key tenet of genetics—mutagenesis occurs randomly across the genome. New research, however, suggests that mutations may be less random than originally thought.

The risk of older fathers passing on disease-causing mutations to their children is higher than we thought. Genome sequencing has revealed that among men in their early thirties, around 1 in 50 sperm ...