A historian says he has DNA evidence proving the identity of Jack the Ripper. The infamous serial killer murdered five women ...

An international team of geneticists, public health specialists and environmental scientists from Greenland, Denmark and ...

Researchers and citizen scientists took samples of environmental DNA from saliva on backyard hummingbird feeders and agave ...

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup.

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...

Human remains discovered in DeBary in 1997 have been identified as Ryan L. Stone, the Volusia Sheriff's Office announced ...

Our cells constantly receive DNA damage from factors such as ultraviolet rays, irradiations, toxins and chemicals.

A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

WORRYINGLY low levels of genetic diversity make Scotland’s red squirrels especially vulnerable to disease, a study has shown ...

For years, scientists have known that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred, leaving behind genetic traces that still ...