These findings offer valuable insights into human history, population dynamics, and the eventual collapse of the Classic Maya ...

Researchers discovered that the absence of one critical gene made the plague less virulent, and may have allowed two major ...

You may have seen it in the news recently: a baby in Pennsylvania with a rare genetic disorder was healed with a personalized ...

To Shakespeare's Hamlet, we humans are "the paragon of animals." But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Skoltech researchers have enlisted generative artificial intelligence to complete the missing data on the distances between ...

These vaccines contain mRNA, a genetic cousin of DNA, that prompts cells to make the coronavirus "spike protein." The vaccines don't alter cells' DNA, and after making the spike, cells break down ...

a genetics startup that used CRISPR gene-editing technology to splice the extinct species' DNA into that of modern canines. Extinction is a part of nature. Of the five billion species that have ...

DNA is organized in segments on chromosomes called genes. Humans typically have 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs. Genetics plays a key role in answering each of these questions. For humans ...

Some have already started mining the DNA of our ancestors for clues to the origin of modern diseases, like diabetes and autoimmune conditions. Others aspire to use the old genetic data to modify ...

The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a glimpse of her ancestry. “One of the reasons ...