Study Showcases Certain Neanderthal Gene Variants Make an Individual More Susceptible to Autism Neanderthals may have vanished a long time ago, but they continue to startle scientists with discoveries ...

Screen-centric lifestyles may be influencing human evolution through impacts on cognition, sleep, reproduction, and the microbiome, reshaping natural selection.

The company’s dissolution and sale is the largest bankruptcy case to handle millions of people’s DNA and genetic information ...

An international research team has deciphered a mechanism of the evolutionary arms race in human cells. The findings provide ...

Newly unsealed warrants in the deaths of Jessica Lyman and her 8-year-old son reveal disturbing clues found inside their home ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

Logan Cyr, 16, joined a global accelerator program for teens that enables him to research cures for genetic malformations.

The genetics company is teaming up with "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson to resurrect an animal resembling the ...

“In October 2021, the skeletal remains of an unknown individual wearing a one-piece jumpsuit/fleece longjohns … were found ...

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

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

There have been significant improvements in DNA technology that has helped solve active and cold cases. Could those techniques finally provide the evidence to get an indictment and conviction in this ...