Professor Richard Houlston, a world-leading geneticist at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his outstanding contribution to ...

Richard Houlston works at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, UK, where he searches for genes that confer susceptibility to disease. Until recently, Houlston mapped microsatellite markers ...

In a study observing how leukaemias develop in pairs of identical twins, Professors Mel Greaves and Richard Houlston were able to identify the exact mutations that kick-start the cancer. By ...