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

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this information like a cosmic DNA test.

Environmental DNA has been obtained from air, soil, sediment, water, permafrost, snow and ice cores and the techniques are primarily being used to help track and protect endangered animals.

With the flick of a light, researchers have found a way to rearrange life's basic tapestry, bending DNA strands back on themselves to reveal the material nature of the genome.

New research from the Kind Group at the Hubrecht Institute sheds light on how cells repair damaged DNA. For the first time, the team has mapped the activity of repair proteins in individual human ...

If the human genome is like the blueprint for a house, a new study on the non-coding parts of DNA maps the wiring, connecting the lights to their switches.

The trouble with old DNA is that it breaks down. Things like ultraviolet light and microbes quickly degrade the little helical molecules. "As soon as an organism dies, the DNA within its cells ...

Race is a social construct — so why are DNA test kits like the ones from 23andMe coded like they reveal biological fact about the user's racial makeup? This episode, Short Wave Scientist in ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread ...

Neanderthals and humans mated millennia ago, and their legacy lives on in us today. Here's how.

Every day, we are bombarded by the entire range of the spectrum of EM waves, from the longest radio waves to the shortest and most energetic gamma photons.

However, the ability to capture human DNA from the environment could have a range of unintended consequences — both inadvertent and malicious, they added.