DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

The South American lungfish genome, the largest animal genome sequenced at 91 billion base pairs, has been fully decoded.

Researchers have identified elusive DNA switches in brain support cells that influence genes tied to Alzheimer’s disease. When people think about DNA, they often picture genes that determine our ...

Estrogens, the main female sex hormone, although they also perform some functions in men, are involved in a myriad of ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

Polar bears are changing at a genetic level in response to climate change. This is what it means for the rest of the Arctic.

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - With the help of Othram ’s advanced DNA testing, remains that were found in Reno in 2023 have been ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have decoded the nuclear genome of Amorphochlora amoebiformis, a unicellular marine alga ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to ...

DNA captured on air filters and stored since the 1960s acts as an ecological time capsule, according to a recent publication ...

A tiny percentage of our DNA—around 2%—contains 20,000-odd genes. The remaining 98%—long known as the non-coding genome, or ...