genetics

A DNA test kit like 23 and Me cannot tell you where you were born, but your parents probably can.

The last surviving male died in March this year.

This genetic variant may help explain different health disparities between those of African and European decent.

How many bacteria are alive today that could cause pandemics in the future?

But brutal rulers like Genghis Khan could also be to blame.

"It's like a paternity test, not between father and son but among peoples."

The island of New Guinea is home to a group of unusual green-blooded lizards, known as Prasinohaema.

First step, virus resistant; next step, cancer.

If the Arctic permafrost melts, greenhouse gasses equivalent to burning all of the world's forests two-and-a-half times over could be released.

Scientists have found a new four-stranded knot of DNA.

There may be a biological association between father's age and offspring's lifespan.

Neanderthals aren't the only ancient people that have left traces in our modern DNA.

The research could pave the way for DNA-based intelligence tests.

The results might not apply if you only suffer from insomnia for a short amount of time.

A genetic technique could uncover potential new treatments for diseases by studying the animal kingdom.

The new work offers the most advanced genetic insight yet about this intriguing condition.

Up to 90 percent of the people responsible for Stonehenge disappeared.

Mick Jagger isn't going to like this.

The gene may one day put an end to alcoholism.

The flying mammals can survive on a meal that almost no other mammal can.

The genetic discovery confirms descendants' long-held beliefs.

One mutation in a gene could mean people predisposed to ovarian cancer get the disease six years earlier.

Forensic scientists could make good use of the new finding.

But more information is not always better, according to a geneticist.

“We’ve never seen anything this powerful,” researchers said.

A child’s genes, combined with their environment, will shape who they are. But parenting is part of that environment.

Nothing lasts forever, but some things, like bats, endure.

Why do we have seemingly extra amino acids in our genetic code? Quantum chemistry borrowed from space to find the answer.

More than 7,000 genomes were analyzed.

Biologists found that the axolotl has an exceptionally long genome, with 32 billion base pairs of DNA, 10 times the number a human has. It’s the largest genome ever sequenced.