Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

Genomic data sheds light on how populations of sledge dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

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

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

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

The breakthrough in the 2011 case comes after the accused killer's DNA was found to match evidence collected from a woman who ...

My wife “Sandra” and her siblings recently decided to take one of those Ancestry DNA tests for the purpose of starting a ...