By analyzing DNA of ancient skeletons at a Neolithic burial site near Paris, an international team of researchers has ...

The ability of different genetic variants—changes to one or more building blocks of DNA—to cause disease, and to what extent, ...

Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that slowly impairs memory, affects thinking skills, and ...

Some shark species might belong to their own distinct lineage, which is separate from all other sharks, rays and skates, ...

New research has discovered that the molecular machines responsible for copying our DNA have a surprising hidden talent—an ...

A protein tied to ALS and dementia may have a much bigger role in disease than scientists realized. Researchers found that TDP43 controls a key DNA repair process, but when the protein becomes ...

Over 50 years ago, a baby was found in a black trash bag inside a Columbus County landfill. For decades, the baby went by “Baby Doe” and remained unidentified. That all changed this week when advanced ...

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Most people alive today carry fragments of Neanderthal DNA in their genome. Now scientists are gaining a more intimate understanding of the ancient encounters that put it there. By Carl Zimmer One of ...

More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer. Sarah Geer, 13, was last seen leaving her friend’s ...

Authorities trying to solve the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie say they might tap DNA genealogy databases, the same step that police took to unravel a decades-old series of murders in California and ...