Researchers sequenced the knotty sea spider’s genome for the first time, revealing a missing gene that many other animals ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Why it's difficult for genetically obese people to permanently lose weight and your DNA creates biological barriers that make ...

The researchers found health perks directly linked with weight loss through blood test results, including increases in HDL ...

An estimated 25 to 30 million Americans live with a rare disease, most of which are genetic. The Sunshine Genetics Act ...

DNA is the building block of life — it can tell us a lot about both who we are, and who we may become. DNA is also, ...

Portfolios have building blocks that determine whether family capital survives market shocks, tax‑code changes and ...

After years of collecting consumer DNA, genetic testing companies are monetizing the data. But who should profit — the ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

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

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Recent research suggests that some of these genetic variants inherited from Neanderthals could be linked to autism spectrum ...