A new mega-database of half a million mutations may flag new ways of treating genetic disease, scientists say.

DNA sequencing was revolutionized after scientists discovered a new bacterium in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park ...

Most microscopes can only illuminate objects down to a certain size before tiny features blur together. This blurring is ...

When modern humans first ventured out of Africa, they followed in the footsteps of another human species who dared leave before them. Eventually our bold ancestors caught up with their Neanderthal ...

Scientists have recovered copies of the full male and female Neanderthal genomes, thanks to DNA from well-preserved ... Neanderthals and humans. At least half of the whole Neanderthal genome ...

The best deal we’ve found from 23andMe is on its Health & Ancestry service, which is now half price in the best Black Friday sales. Originally priced at £149, the 23andMe Health & Ancestry DNA ...

In reality, there is much more to the RNA story. However, in the half-century since the structure of DNA was first elaborated, scientists have learned that RNA does much more than simply play a ...

Afterward, only half of the new DNA double helices would be hybrids; the other half would be completely new. Every subsequent round of replication therefore would result in fewer hybrids and more ...

More than half of your body is not human ... The human genome - the full set of genetic instructions for a human being - is made up of 20,000 instructions called genes. But add all the genes ...

She had awakened, she later told police, to find her daughter missing and a two-and-a-half-page note left on the ... While the couple gave DNA, hair, blood and writing samples in the days ...

DNA extracted from bone fragments found in the ... "Out of this very little number we find one individual that has half-and-half mixed ancestry, " Dr Slon told BBC News. When other studies are ...