Black Americans in Illinois can submit a DNA sample to a university-based project trying to find their ancestral homes, living relatives in Africa.

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence the DNA of all known eukaryotic species on Earth, a massive group that includes plants, animals, fungi and other organisms. Image credit: Juan Carlos ...

DNA, the biomolecule that provides the blueprint for life, has a lesser-known identity as a stretchy polymer. Scientists have found a flaw in the most common model for DNA elasticity, a discovery ...

Details of the project were given to BBC News on the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project, which mapped the molecules in human DNA and was also largely funded by Wellcome.

First, the researchers synthesized the origami “paper,” a self-assembling DNA scaffold about 240 nm to a side, built from four monomeric tiles.

Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural ...