Historical inhabitants of the region that is now Ukraine have had diverse European, Asian and Middle Eastern ancestry for ...

After 26 years, breakthroughs in DNA and genetic genealogy have led to the arrest of Ronald Ackerman for the 1998 murder of ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease ...

Researchers developed an epigenetic editing approach to silence the PCSK9 gene, achieving long-term cholesterol reduction ...

A body that was discovered in Alabama nearly 20 years ago was identified as an escaped inmate who had been using a fake name, ...

Mississippi investigators and a Texas DNA lab created a crowdfund to help identify the skeletal remains that were discovered ...

New research findings by Oceana, in collaboration with marine geneticist Dr. Adrian Munguia-Vega and in partnership with prestigious Swiss watchmaker, Blancpain, detected ...

Emerging findings suggest that viral DNA may play an important part in how embryos form, right after fertilization.

Most people would rather avoid the alligators living along the Indian River Lagoon, but a group of scientists from the ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.