epigenetic

Metastasis is when cancer becomes deadly. Unsuccessful searches for driver mutations of metastasis have led some to explore alternative epigenetic causes. Pierce et al. found that the protein kinase LKB1, better known for influencing cancer…

Germline defense against transposonsGenomes of germ cells present an existential vulnerability to organisms because germ cell mutations will propagate to future generations. Transposable elements are one source of such mutations. In the…