An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

A new study from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) in London, UK reveals how ancient viral DNA once written off as ...

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...

D microscopy shows that the giant bacterium Thiovulum imperiosus squeezes its DNA into peripheral pouches, not a central mass ...

Further forensic tests found the DNA of another person in one of the bodies, which were identified as belonging to a couple,’ ...

In genetics, scientists must analyze the genomes of millions, if not billions, of people, each carrying millions of variants.

Celine was reported missing by her cousin Jean-Marc Figard later that evening, sparking a nationwide hunt that gained ...

Investigators tracked a suspect in a decades-old Boston murder case to a parking lot, where they nabbed his DNA from spit.