For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

In the dry, windswept valleys of Northern Chile, two ancient skeletons are changing how scientists understand the history of ...

Newly unsealed warrants in the deaths of Jessica Lyman and her 8-year-old son reveal disturbing clues found inside their home ...

Most cancers, in general, are caused by the body’s repeated exposure to harmful chemicals in our environment. These include ...

By analyzing ancient DNA, scientists determined when, where and how our ancestors got sick from infectious diseases.

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Several forensic experts were used in trying to identify her. In August 2002, bones recovered during the search of Pickton's ...

A rare form of leprosy may have existed in the Americas long before European colonization, according to new research using ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

The BIOMICs research group of the University of the Basque Country (EHU) has found significant genetic marker associations ...

Los Angeles Police Department officers fired foam projectiles and flash-bang devices at reporters and photographers who were ...

University of Buffalo researchers conducted a systematic analysis of switch-like genes by analyzing genomes, transcriptomes ...