It took me about an hour to work up the courage to look at my predicted half-brother’s profile. As soon as I saw the name, I ...

“But now people know that word more, especially with the DNA testing going on ... appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Tracing your family tree can be tough. This group helps Milwaukee's ...

Explore how genealogy helped catch the Golden State Killer and the privacy concerns that arose from the investigation.

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but ...

A new study reveals that distal gene regulation via DNA looping evolved 150 million years earlier than previously believed.

In other words, the appearance of reptiles—and by extension, the evolutionary branch that leads to humankind—gets pushed back by 35 million years. The team’s conclusions also mean that the split ...

Comb jellies "could repurpose [their] genetic toolkit in different ways like a Swiss knife," said the researchers.

The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ancestor who lived 200,000 years ago in present-day Botswana.

The family of murdered Diane Sindall want “justice”, the detective in charge of a new investigation into her death has said. Peter Sullivan, 68, was convicted of the murder of Diane Sindall, 21, in ...

Over the last 20 years, genetic research has changed dramatically. An explosion of genomic data has reshaped how we ...

Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short ...