FBI uses investigative genetic genealogy to analyze DNA in Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, the same technology that solved ...

Beginning on Tuesday, the Utah Newborn Screening Program started screening for the rare but serious genetic disorder known as Hunter Syndrome. According to the Boston Children’s Hospital, Hunter ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to watch the flu virus live as it infects human airway cells. They developed a ...

We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

The rise of gene editing forces regulators to confront a difficult question: How to protect fair play in the age of genomic medicine.

Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome. When scientists sequence a genome, they identify ...

Officials investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie have recovered DNA from a glove found near her house. If they don't get an exact match, they could turn to genealogy websites for clues.

College administrators can be counted on to never change; they remain committed to writing bad contracts that they will ultimately regret. The latest chapter in this endless epic belongs to Kansas ...

Different DNA Structures Nucleate the Folding of Proteins to form specific complexes that modulate the readout of ...

Creatures that can change from one form to another are a staple of science fiction: Think werewolves and Transformers. Nature, too, has its shapeshifters, such as dimorphic fungi. While scientists ...

In two new studies on 28,000 individuals, researchers are able to show that genetic variants in 11 regions of the human genome have a clear influence on which bacteria are in the gut and what they do ...

It took a while for the science to basically catch up to that suspicion.” In these types of “recessive” conditions, the ...