The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

Britain has become home to the first major investment project looking to write human DNA completely from scratch, attracting both great excitement and grave concern from the scientific community.

Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

A family's pet makes several horrifying discoveries. Their dog, Chicarin, brought human remains back to their Jefferson ...

A new study combining archaeological and genetic research offers fresh insights into social organization and population ...

Forty-nine years after skeletal remains of a young woman were found in the Wolf Creek area near Swamp Mountain in Oregon, ...