WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

Scientists have sequenced the oldest known DNA from ancient Egypt. It belonged to a potter who lived 4,500 years ago. This ...

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

Now a study shows that mitochondria are possibly even stranger than we thought. Mitochondria in our brain cells frequently fling their DNA into the nucleus, the study found, where the DNA becomes ...

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

A three-person mixture of unknown DNA was found under a 21-year-old University of Idaho student’s fingernails after she and three other students were killed at an off-campus home in November ...

Ancient DNA from a 4,495–4,880-year-old Egyptian skeleton shows that about 20% of the genome is linked to the Fertile Crescent region of Mesopotamia, with the remainder connected to North Africa.