Anomalous Genetic Sequencing Anthropologists have made a genuinely startling find — 7,000-year-old mummies whose DNA bears no ...

DNA testing has led to over 600 exonerations since 1989, but access to post-conviction analysis is limited due to restrictive ...

New research challenges long-standing assumptions about human evolution, revealing that natural selection has been more ...

People were always aware that things like physical features and biological quirks tended to run in families, but no one ever really knew why. The 1940s marked a turning point when scientists finally ...

Ancient DNA has revealed that a common childhood herpesvirus was infecting—and even embedding itself into human genomes—thousands of years ago. The findings show a deep, shared evolutionary history ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health traits. By probing regions of DNA previously linked to disease, the work has ...