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

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Instead, the Springfield native is forever the smiling 17-year-old who lived with her grandmother on Dartmouth Street, prayed ...

One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.

Chromothripsis enables cancer cells to evolve and resist treatment. With their new findings, researchers hope to explore ways ...

The new year promises a choice selection of weighty books to read on topics ranging from professional wrestling and ...

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

Authorities say the Brown University mass shooting suspect, 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente, is ...

Originally classified as ‘junk DNA’, genomic regions which are transcribed into RNAs that do not serve as template for protein production have attracted increasing attention in the last two decades.

Species of bacteria in the gut microbiome are evolving differently in industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world, researchers have found. One adaptation that has become prominent in ...