Over 30 years after 'Baby Garin' was tragically found dead in a plastic bag on a roadside in California, 60-year-old Pamela ...

The well-preserved remains of a baby boy who died 17,000 years ago in what is now Italy reveal that he had blue eyes, dark skin and curly hair.

Environmental DNA, also known as eDNA, is genetic material shed from animals and plants that scientists can use to tell what kinds of organisms are living in an environment. However, scientists ...

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

High-strength cannabis changes drug users’ DNA, researchers have found. Researchers at King’s College London and the ...

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

A former Los Angeles Police Department officer who fatally shot an unarmed homeless man in Venice in 2015 but was spared from prosecution at the time is now facing an arrest warrant stemming from the ...

This valuable study addresses potential roles of the master regulator of X chromosome inactivation, the Xist long non-coding RNA, in autosomal gene regulation. Using data from mouse cells, the authors ...

Biophysical chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have uncovered a previously hidden landscape that governs the intracellular organization and dynamics of SWI/SNF chromatin ...

LOS ANGELES — It was 30 years ago when a man searching for recyclables made a disturbing discovery along a narrow road in Las ...

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.

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