Bryan Kohberger has pleaded guilty to the murders of four University of Idaho students, more than two years after the grisly ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

Using an inexpensive electrode coated with DNA, MIT researchers have designed disposable diagnostics that could be adapted to detect a variety of diseases, including cancer or infectious diseases such ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

As war continues to rage in Gaza and Ukraine, there is concern about how the related trauma might be transmitted to future ...

Eggs and embryos from people with polycystic ovary syndrome have altered patterns of so-called epigenetic tags, which could explain how the condition is inherited ...