The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature.

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

A new RapidHIT ID machine, which bears a passing resemblance to an air fryer, can generate a human DNA profile in about 90 ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals capable of detecting and responding to physical tension in DNA. This ...

But in the 1990s the virus that causes AIDS turned out to offer a solution. Researchers discovered how to strip away HIV’s destructive genes and repurpose it as a “lentiviral vector”—a tool to deliver ...

A new CRISPR breakthrough shows scientists can turn genes back on without cutting DNA, by removing chemical tags that act ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.