From detecting a risk for a certain disease or solving a criminal case, the discovery of DNA has forever changed our lives.

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Genomic data shed light on how populations of sled dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

A new study in Science uses ancient and modern DNA to tell the Qimmeq’s story. It’s a story not just about dogs, but also ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...