A previously overlooked type of circular DNA may help explain why some children with leukaemia relapse, according to landmark research from the University of Leeds published today in Nature.

Dr. Vanessa Conn, one of the scientists on the team, said that these circular RNAs can work together and cause many changes ...

A study of newly created databases of medulloblastoma has found that patients with tumors containing circular extrachromosomal DNA - loops of DNA found outside of regular chromosomes - are twice ...

DNA holds the instructions that make us who we are. If we want to read those instructions, say to understand our ...

The researchers also discovered that overactive genes within abnormal circular DNA structures in tumor cells genes drive bladder cancer resistance to therapy.