Some viruses come and go after making us sick, but some have become a part of us, passed down by our ancestors. San Diego ...

Everyone alive today is "a result of like three different species coming together," study co-author Fernando Villanea, a population geneticist at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Live Science ...

DNA’s chemical cousin, RNA, was the messenger that carries DNA instructions from the double helix in the cell’s nucleus to ...

How Forensic Scientists Are Reconstructing Faces Using DNA Found At Crime Scenes This is the world of DNA phenotyping.

A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

Scientists at Kyoto University have uncovered a hidden protein complex that organizes DNA in sperm stem cells, a discovery ...