Healthy tissues in older people carry a lot of cancer-promoting mutations

Enlarge / No, not that kind of tissue (though this is “healthy usage of tissue” in a vacuum). (credit: George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images) We know that mutations in DNA occur in all of our cells as they divide over the course of our lives. Some of these mutations cause cancers though most do not. But we […]

Roguelite Freaky Awesome Makes Players Adapt To Constant, Power-Altering Mutations

Your dog has gone missing in an old factory filled with toxic waste and unsettling monsters, but there’s no way you;re letting your puppy pal get hurt in there. However, rushing in quickly causes some gross, but handy, mutations, and players will have to learn to deal with their never-ending array of changing powers and […]

ISS to test superbug’s ‘microgravity mutations’ in bid to make better drugs

A deadly superbug and an advanced lightning sensor will be among the varied cargo heading to the International Space Station as SpaceX launches its 10th commercial resupply mission for NASA. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will lift off from the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A on February 18. The mission […]