Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

But while experts now know a fair amount about ancient Egyptian life, they still understand very little about the ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Ancient DNA has revealed links between the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia. Researchers sequenced whole genomes from the ...