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

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

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

A Ph.D. student in biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has built a software program ...

Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.

Robert Atrops receives a life sentence for the 1988 murder of his wife, based on new DNA evidence from a cold case unit.

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

‘The Genetic Book of the Dead’: Reading Starts With DNA For Richard Dawkins, the history of life is like a novel that never ends. Revisions can be dramatic.

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

New DNA research has revealed that Christopher Columbus, who accidentally discovered the Americas, was a Sephardic Jew.

With a skin sample from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth, scientists are gaining new insights into what made the animals tick. The findings could also help controversial de-extinction efforts.