History often feels crowded with names, dates, and ancestors who seem to lead straight to us. So the idea that an entire ...

Genetic testing provides valuable information for patients and families about the risk of developing certain cancers, known diseases OR, whether someone is a carrier of a genetic disease. Testing ...

Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to rebuild lost traits in ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed 6,000-year-old human skeletons in Colombia that possess a DNA profile unlike any other known to science. This unique genetic lineage, which has ...

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age. When you purchase through ...

This study is led by professor Tao Yang (Department of Endocrinology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University). The team generated islet cell type-specific (Gcg/α-, Ins/β-, and Sst ...

Genetic tests for Alzheimer’s can detect specific genes linked to the disease. In most cases, they can’t definitively confirm or predict a diagnosis, but they can provide insight into your relative ...

Nick Mireles is a writer on the central coast of California. He has a knack for film, music, and Dungeons and Dragons. When he’s not writing, he tries to spend his days reading, surfing, and camping ...

Most male yellow crazy ants carry two separate sets of DNA, resulting from sperm and egg cells that don’t mix their genetic material after fertilisation. This means the males are chimeras – ...