Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

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

A U.S. bankruptcy judge has cleared 23andMe’s $305 million sale to TTAM Research, a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki ...

The researchers found health perks directly linked with weight loss through blood test results, including increases in HDL ...

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

"I never truly felt a sense of belonging within my family, in some ways, I've always been very physically different from everyone else," Valerio told Newsweek.

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

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

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