From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body's ...

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is ...

It's not easy to look at a sea spider and see an animal so representative of its kind that it may help scientists sort out ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

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

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

Researchers have recovered and sequenced Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from 4,000-year-old human remains in Chile, ...

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