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 ...

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 ...

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

More than 4,500 years ago, at the dawn of Egypt’s pyramid age, a man was laid to rest in a ceramic pot. He was then sealed ...

Human DNA contains roughly 3 billion letters of genetic code. However, we understand only a fraction of what this vast ...

According to the Academy of Athens, scientists have recently decoded the DNA of the famous Greek feta cheese.

More than three decades after the rape of a 12-year-old girl, investigators say DNA evidence allegedly links a Brockton man to the assault.

‘Designer babies’ is one thing that comes to mind (Picture: Getty Images/Westend61) Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been ...