In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

As war continues to rage in Gaza and Ukraine, there is concern about how the related trauma might be transmitted to future ...

Fu and her colleagues attempted to retrieve ancient DNA from six samples taken from Dragon Man’s surviving tooth and the cranium’s petrous bone, a dense piece at the base of the skull that’s ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

More shared DNA generally indicates a closer relationship; for example, a parent and their child will share around 47.5% to 50% of their DNA, while grandparents and grandchildren, aunts and uncles ...

The DNA of 10 families exposed to the ’80s violence and 22 families to the 2011 conflict was compared to the genetic material of 16 families who left Syria before 1980, avoiding decades of unrest.