In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...

In a hillside cemetery in southern Italy, the bones of a small Bronze Age community have yielded a secret that their stone ...

Bad guys beware: Your DNA is in the air. Scientists have discovered that human DNA can be easily found — allowing it to later be sequenced — virtually anywhere, from furniture to footprints and even ...

Mount Sinai scientists developed V2P, a powerful new AI tool that predicts how specific DNA mutations translate into disease, ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

Moss quietly collects DNA from animals, plants, and microbes, offering a simple way to track biodiversity without harming ...

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