Folks who struggle to reduce their carb intake might be able to blame ancient DNA still lurking in humans, a new study ...

Before Israel killed him, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar hid with six Israeli hostages, one of them a U.S. citizen.

A huge data breach followed by a plummeting valuation has stoked fears of a sale of 23andMe along with all of its customers' genetic data.

The implications of this sale are significant, raising concerns over data privacy and the potential misuse of sensitive ...

Since it was founded nearly two decades ago, 23andMe has grown into one of the largest biotechnology companies in the world.

There are millions of species on Earth that we still know nothing about. Researchers call these species "biological dark ...

Tracy Rittenhouse, associate professor of natural resources and the environment in UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and ...

Patterson kept the lions' remains, eventually selling them to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1925. Decades ...

The USP50 protein plays a key role in regulating the balance between nuclease and helicase activity during essential cellular ...

Researchers found a higher concentration of a specific kind of DNA -- extrachromosomal or ecDNA -- in more aggressive and advanced cancers that could mark them as targets for future therapies. They ...

Researchers at Colorado State University have identified an alternate method to study changes during the DNA replication ...

A new DNA study on the 500-year-old remains of Christopher Columbus has found that the controversial explorer was actually a ...