Would you choose to have a part of your body live on after you died? How might your choice affect your relatives—or even your ...

Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in ...

DNA repair is essential for the maintenance of genomic stability and its failure can lead to human disease. Various DNA repair systems exist, such as base excision repair, nucleotide excision repair, ...

Advances in sequencing ancient DNA have revealed that over millenia, people have moved into new regions in successive waves, ...

Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a ...

At the time of his death, Hitler was observed at the end of the sofa with a gun and blood splattered on the couch and the ...

What if human DNA suddenly stopped mutating? Learn how halting evolution could impact disease, adaptation, and survival.

The Gilgo Beach murder case is moving toward a trial, but two defense requests are slowing things down. Rex Heuermann's attorneys are asking for more time as they challenge something called nuclear ...

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...

The Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Lab acquired a forensic tool used to test DNA from bones and teeth this summer.