An Oklahoma woman says she recently uncovered her family’s connection to a racial massacre in Arkansas, and she only learned about it because of an ancestry DNA test. Kaleda Ruck says her journey ...

Researchers at the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology have uncovered new evidence that two major types of gene-controlling DNA sequences, promoters and enhancers, operate with a shared ...

Searching through a diary belonging to MI6 analyst Gareth Williams, Scotland Yard detectives came across a mysterious phrase written in his handwriting that left them baffled.

Biological relationships are the foundation of every family, but sometimes primary documents are not enough to prove these ...

"We've seen enough," Tampa International Airport wrote on social media early Thursday morning. "We've had enough." ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...

Rapidly testing hundreds of thousands of DNA sequences, scientists identified specific genetic variations contributing to blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

Can Ben Lamm save the planet? He thinks so. Short, stocky and unassuming with a puckish sense of humor, the shaggy-haired ...

DNA recovered at the scene of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance may not be usable, law enforcement officials said.

A proposed function of TADs is to contribute to gene regulation by promoting chromatin interactions within a TAD and by suppressing interactions between TADs. Here, we directly probe the ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

High-throughput sequencing, single-cell technologies, and large-scale population studies have transformed genetics and genomics into data-intensive ...