BestReviews is reader-supported and may earn an affiliate commission. Details. If you’ve been dying to try a DNA kit, now is the time Have you been pondering having your DNA analyzed? Or thought about ...

Work has begun on something once-unthinkable: creating human DNA from scratch. Artificial DNA has long been an ethical minefield, with fears of a generation of ‘designer babies’ with pick ‘n’ mix ...

NEW YORK — What makes us human? In a step toward finding biological answers, scientists have deciphered the DNA of the chimpanzee, our closest living relative, and made comprehensive comparisons to ...

Saey: My first memory of the Human Genome Project was when I was an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and I remember Walter Gilbert, who is a Nobel Prize winner, coming ...

Recent research on ancient genomes spanning 50,000 years has shed light on the interactions between early modern humans and Neanderthals. Two major studies published in Nature and Science reveal ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have recovered the oldest known Homo sapiens DNA from human remains found in Europe, and the information is helping to reveal our species’ shared history with Neanderthals.