Geneticist Lara Cassidy wasn’t surprised to find several generations of the same family buried in an Iron Age cemetery near ...

Scientists have discovered a surprising mechanism by which the inherited genetic mutation known to cause Huntington's disease leads to the death of brain cells. The findings change the understanding ...

If you could take a simple blood test that could detect multiple types of cancer while they’re still in an early and ...

DNA results that took years to get led to charges filed against an Independence man in connection to the sexual assault of a child under the age of 12.

Tiny fragments found in the environment are increasing the rate of genetic transfer between bacteria 200-fold, Oxford ...

Darrell Crawford has the oldest DNA found in North America — a genetic line that was traced back a whopping 55 generations.

Scientists have discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction. Until now, researchers believed that these so-called SMC motors that make loops into DNA could move in one ...

Matthew Muller, the notorious rapist who was convicted of kidnapping Denise Huskins in Vallejo, pleaded guilty on Friday to victimizing more women in the South Bay. Muller, 47, was ...

The Lancaster County Attorney's Office charged 46-year-old Alaric Harden with first-degree murder on Friday in relation to a ...

Sunburn has traditionally been attributed to UV-induced DNA damage. However, a new study by the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, reveals that RNA, another ...

Our genes contain all the instructions our body needs to function, but their expression must be finely regulated to guarantee ...

Genomics, Sir Donnelly said, works with companies across myriad industries such as healthcare and insurers in providing ...