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

New research from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered an evolutionary change that may explain why certain ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

The human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 ...

“Hormones and DNA are two powerful factors that can push a gene into being switch-like,” Aqil says. “Typically, lots of small ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement.

Genetic disease is believed to be linked to 41 percent of U.S. infants' deaths, while more than 2 million children have a ...

The COVID Human Genetic Effort started recruiting volunteers last year, with a focus on healthcare workers who were exposed to the virus but didn’t get infected, and healthy adults living in a ...

The Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine is transforming medicine by expanding the role of genetics and genomics in science and medicine through major discoveries ...