Human remains found along Lake Michigan over three decades ago have been identified as Dorothy Glanton, a 71-year-old Chicago ...

The real revolution came in 2012, when researchers Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier harnessed CRISPR, a natural bacterial defense system. In bacteria, CRISPR cuts out invading viruses’ DNA ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

A groundbreaking DNA study has unveiled a hidden chapter in human evolution, revealing that all modern humans evolved from ...

A new study of ancient dog DNA shows that people and dogs traveled together across Eurasia for at least 10,000 years.

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) said it has caught the coyote connected to a Thanksgiving attack on a 4-year-old child. According to CPW, weeks of searching and trapping ...

The prehistoric Jomon people of Japan had "unexpectedly low" levels of DNA from the Denisovans, our mysterious human ...

At a time when large-scale human genome analysis was not yet common, the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (ToMMo) ...

Research institutions around the world house valuable genetic information that could help unlock countless medical mysteries.

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