In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evidence that the ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

The breakthrough could one day allow doctors to repair disease-causing mutations in embryos.

The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across ...

Researchers have captured the first atomic-level views of human SMUG1, a key enzyme involved in repairing damaged DNA.

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible.

DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.

I N 2011 A team of geneticists managed to recover centuries-old DNA from the teeth of bodies that had been buried in East ...