Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) A new genetic study claims alien DNA could be inserted into humans. Dr. Max ...

Scientists discovered hundreds of energy-making enzymes secretly working on human DNA—revealing a hidden “mini-metabolism” ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

A study published today in the journal Science reveals how jumping fragments of human DNA, a type of genetic parasite, ...

What is that how can a tooth survive the years and bear any intelligible mark of the molecules on its side when bone and other soft tissue have long since decayed? In the case of ancient-DNA, teeth ...

Human DNA constantly refolds in 3D space, and these looping dynamics regulate gene expression and cell identity.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent research on ancient genomes spanning 50,000 years has shed light on the interactions between early modern humans and ...

You can always be judged by your scars. This is the idea that sums up what researchers at Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) claim is one of the new breakthroughs in basic and biomedical ...

Researchers have used a new human reference genome, which includes many duplicated and repeat sequences left out of the original human genome draft, to identify genes that make the human brain ...