The field of cancer epigenetics examines how heritable changes in gene regulation - independent of DNA sequence - impact ...

Ancient DNA is turning human evolution into a crime scene reconstruction, and one of the prime suspects is a herpesvirus that ...

A New York judge on Wednesday allowed DNA evidence obtained through advanced techniques into the forthcoming murder trial of Rex Heuermann, the man accused of being Long Island’s Gilgo Beach serial ...

A plant named Virectaria stellata has genetic traits foreign to its family, challenging the classic rules of plant ...

A virus that infects nearly all children early in life has, in rare cases, been present within human DNA for thousands of ...

Scientists have turned to artifacts associated with Leonardo da Vinci on a quest to track down the legendary polymath’s elusive DNA.

Scientists have uncovered how cannabis evolved the ability to make its most famous compounds—THC, CBD, and CBC—by recreating ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents ...