He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to ...

New research has discovered that the Herpes virus actually takes control of key RNA functionality and changes human DNA in ...

Beyond that, local officials cited the ongoing criminal investigation led by the Office of the State Fire Marshal.

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the teeth of a remarkably well-preserved skeleton found in a sealed funeral pot in ...

Akihiko Yamamoto recently connected with his American sister, Sharon Lovell, whom he never knew existed. For most of his life ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...