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One person's junk is another's treasure. An international team of scientists have found that strings of "junk" DNA in the ...

Around 6,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who migrated south settled in the Bogotá Altiplano of what is now Colombia, transitioning to an agr...

The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerati...

Like treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation, there are just some regions of DNA that evolution doesn't dare tweak. ...

Enormous strides have been made to unravel the secrets of the human genome, so why are we missing the genetic information of most of the pla...

A woman developed 12 tumors — seven benign and five cancerous — before her 40th birthday. Medical researchers recently discovered why she...

Paying extra for exotic vitamins in skin creams that promise to erase fine lines and prevent wrinkles will get you little more than an emp...

PARIS — Barbra Streisand loved her dog Samantha, aka Sammy. The white and fluffy purebred Coton of Tulear was even present on the steps of t...

The origin of Assateague’s wild horses has remained a mystery for centuries, but new genetic data supports the theory that they descended fr...

Could let computers work at warp speed, save energy, and even make trains fly? Scientists have used DNA to overcome a nearly insurmountable ...

By studying the genetic tree of life, scientists have determined that the first life on Earth may have lived underwater, where it would be s...

Archaeologists have recovered DNA from 10 colonial-era inhabitants of Campeche, Mexico, revealing the diversity of the founding populations ...

All cellular life on Earth is based on DNA, which transfers information—about everything from hair color to personality traits—from one gene...

In the TV series Star Trek, the Borg are cybernetic aliens that assimilate humans and other creatures as a means of achieving perfection. So...

Micronesia is defined as a country and has been a much-ballyhooed friend in need for Israel at the United Nations. It actually consists of r...

  Researchers find that sea corals are a source of a sought-after “anti-cancer” compound The ocean floor is riddled with mysteries, but scie...

Researchers believe they may have found ground zero for the deadliest plague in human history, the Black Death — pulling the veil off a mys...

A team of researchers led by Yale University scientists can now quantify the factors causing changes in the DNA that contribute most to canc...

Scientists tested the ancient DNA of 14 people interred at the monumental cemetery at Li: Pascal Radigue; CC BY 4.0 ) ve The mysterious 6,50...

Humans could live until the ripe old age of 150 years according to recent research – and scientists are racing to work out how. Harvard geni...