Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

DNA sequences for the chimpanzee, orangutans and more will help scientists to determine what sets humans apart from other ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus, where DNA is coiled, is no larger than a ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

Differences among the DNA of seven ape species—including humans—are greater than originally thought, according to an ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

Scientists have long known that more than 500 genes (out of approximately 20,000 human protein-coding genes) are crucial for ...

The DNA analysis results indicate that the two mummies come from different lineages and were isolated from the sub-Saharan ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties, argues that law enforcement use of ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Researchers have demonstrated the potential of the innovative optical genome mapping (OGM) technique for the diagnosis, ...