Missing bits of DNA may define humans Genetic information lost along the way led to bigger brains, spineless penises ...

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that encodes an organism's genetic blueprint. In other words, DNA contains all of the information required to build and maintain an organism. DNA was ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

Outlook DNA testing is radically reshaping the definition of family They can create upheavals in our lives and rewrite our personal histories.

Scientists are working to develop an operational definition of "epigenetics" -- a rapidly growing research field that investigates heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms ...

A new study focused on multiple myeloma, the second most common blood cancer, may lead to better ways to group patients by ...