Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...

A genetic test has been shown to identify obesity risk in children before age 5, according to researchers, allowing ...

A new study published in Nature provides evidence that some genetic traits are shaped not just by which variant a person ...

Thousands of years ago, groups of ancient people made the dangerous journey across the icy land bridge of the Bering Strait ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

Great white sharks hold a baffling genetic puzzle: uniform nuclear DNA but divided mitochondrial DNA that defies migration ...

The Age of AI will rely on massive volumes of data that can be easily stored and retrieved—and bioscience may have an ...

The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that ...

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have played a pivotal role in an international study that has uncovered a ...

A new study focused on multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, may lead to better ways to group patients by ...

The Inuit arrived in Greenland several hundred years earlier than previously believed, according to a study that mapped the ...

Through genetic testing, millions of Americans are estimated to have discovered that their parents aren’t who they thought.