A new CRISPR approach can control genes without cutting DNA, opening a safer path for treating genetic diseases. A newly ...

In a Quebec courtroom last October, Sylvie Desjardins delivered a message to her daughter's killer that was 30 years in the ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

The "Dragon Man" skull reveals groundbreaking insights into Denisovans' genetics, appearance, and impact on modern humans.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Today, sequencing machines can decode up to a hundred million times more DNA than their early predecessors. Where the first ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before Greek settlement.

Rosa Elia Vargas Jimenez Everts of Toppenish was 31 when a former roommate reported her missing to the Toppenish Police ...

From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising discoveries about tool making, this year has given us a clearer picture of how and why humans evolved ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This ...