As more people start to opt for genetic carrier testing ahead of conception, doctors and parents-to-be are facing difficult ...

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

DNA testing linked a human skull found in 2004 to Alice Mae Sullivan. 20-year-old Tennessee State University sophomore Alice ...

MyHeritage, the leading global platform for family history and DNA testing, announced today a landmark move to Whole Genome Sequencing for its at-home DNA test, MyHeritage DNA. Leveraging cutting-edge ...

Genetic screening can mean that people at risk of type 1 diabetes get earlier treatment and better outcomes This article is ...

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book We Survived the Night, Julian Brave Noisecat takes us inside the negotiations that ...

“Our findings show that RNA-based testing can uncover hidden risks in multiple myeloma that DNA tests alone miss,” study ...

An American Story" features a chart of the pope's lineage that spans 15 generations. The exhibit also aims to shed light on ...

A new tool developed at ETH Zurich, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a “Google for DNA.” DNA sequencing has transformed biomedical ...

A blank-check firm, backed by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, is taking consumer DNA-testing firm 23andMe public in ...

Can you escape your genetic inheritance, and do lifestyle changes actually make a difference? Daniel Cossins set out to ...