Scientists discover Bronze Age plague DNA in 4,000-year-old sheep remains, shedding light on how ancient diseases spread ...

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

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

Transposable elements are stretches of DNA that can move around the genome. Many of these DNA sequences originate from long ...

The shell casings in the Brown University shooting and the shell casings from the murder of Nuno Loureiro in Brookline, ...

Polar bears are changing at a genetic level in response to climate change. This is what it means for the rest of the Arctic.

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

Attorney General Peter Neronha said in a situation of chaos, witnesses are going to have different accounts. Right now, they ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

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

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

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