Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

B y the end of the next 10 years, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is aiming to test the DNA of every baby born, as ...

Antibiotics are one of the greatest triumphs in the history of medical science—but these lifesaving tools have a dark side.

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...