From detecting a risk for a certain disease or solving a criminal case, the discovery of DNA has forever changed our lives.

The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...

This view inside some of the most precious and rare museum specimens on Earth is helping scientists to better understand the ...

There are plenty of areas of life where the involvement of our DNA is obvious—the risk of developing certain diseases, for example. Increasingly, however, scientists are questioning whether even the ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there ...

But on top of its sexy and mature-themed allure, the original Species also boasted a headlining cast that featured some ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...