For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a lofty ...

I n the late 1800s, some unknown whalers sailed the frozen waters of the Arctic, hunting down a bowhead whale. They were ...

DNA isn't just a long string of genetic code, but an intricate 3D structure folded inside each cell. That means the tools ...

Remains initially located in upstate New York two months ago have been positively identified as belonging to John T. Humphrey ...

Now, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of biologically male or ...

Scientists from Oxford's Radcliffe Department of Medicine have achieved the most detailed view yet of how DNA folds and ...

A proposed change to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule could impose “biological sex” DNA testing on millions of immigrants and Americans as part of the Department’s mass biometric ...

New genetic research has shed fresh light on one of the most mysterious chapters in human evolution—the relationship between ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to ...

Police are probing the latest cliff death in Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles after an unidentified man was discovered ...