New Study Traces Cancer Causes Back To DNA
New Study Traces Cancer Causes Back To DNA Significant advances ingenome sequencingprocesses have given scientists in the U.K. an even closer look at how likelycertain cancersare to develop, based on a mixture of who your ancestors are and which behaviors you’ve personally engaged in. Based on data provided by the100,000 Genomes Project, which sequenced and analyzed over 85,000 NHS participants in December 2018, Cambridge University Professor Serena Nik-Zainalreported new findingson June 13, 2025, which suggest the discovery of 58 new “mutational signatures” that can theoretically help clinicians better determine the cause of cancer in specific circumstances....