Cancer—the very utterance installs fear and a sense of insecurity. But what is cancer, and why is the struggle so hard to find its cure? The explanation goes right to the cells of our body, right to the blueprint of our lives: our DNA. The main cause of cancer is a genetic illness through mutations or changes in our DNA ...

Cardiovascular diseases are still the leading causes of death on the surface of the earth. They are mainly disorders of the heart and blood vessels. What if one could tell long in advance—way before symptoms and signs could appear—who’s at risk? Well, that is the science of genomics. In the genes, awesome insight is available into this rather complicated world ...