Warming temperatures appear to be driving genetic mutations in some polar bears to help them survive the shifting climatic ...

Mount Sinai scientists developed V2P, a powerful new AI tool that predicts how specific DNA mutations translate into disease, ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory.

Researchers say the findings, the first documented case of rising temperatures driving genetic change in a mammal, offer a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com ...

To our immune system, a potentially lifesaving gene therapy can look a lot like a dangerous infection. That's because most ...

An international research team has identified a human protein, ANKLE1, as the first DNA-cutting enzyme (nuclease) in mammals ...

When DNA breaks, cells must repair it accurately to prevent harmful mutations. Researchers have discovered that during a key ...

Alcohol consumption leads to the formation of a toxic compound called acetaldehyde, which damages DNA. A research team from ...

If your estate plan was created before the DNA testing era—or hasn't been updated to account for these new realities—now is ...

In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly available, people started comparing their own DNA with ...