It started as a tragic missing person case — but ended with a shocking forensic breakthrough. Years after Megan Waterman’s ...

Scientists have reached a new milestone in decoding the human genome, unlocking complex regions once believed to be too difficult to study. Researchers used long-read sequencing to analyze the DNA of ...

The Galleri blood test by Grail can be given annually and looks for the DNA ‘fingerprint’ of more than 50 deadly cancers.

The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, a new study finds. This genetic relic could ...

“We hope that this new ability to study somatic mutations in non-invasive tissue biopsies from healthy individuals becomes a ...

Companies that make DNA for science labs screen out any requests for dangerous bits of genetic material. But a new study ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk," may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing ...