Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Sgt. Meyers has been looking for potential leads to figure out where the unknown man is from. The death certificate says he ...

They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological ... ancient evolutionary relationships in the tree of life, according to a new study. It is the first time researchers use ...

Over half of our genomes consists of thousands of remnants of ancient viral DNA, known as transposable elements, which are widespread across the tree of life. Once dismissed as the "dark side" of ...

My mum Judy has brown eyes. Her parents both had blue. For more than 60 years that little detail has bothered her.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

A plea deal leading to a lesser charge and prison sentence in a Lone Tree man’s 1985 shooting death — despite DNA evidence linking ... to risk the rest of his life in prison at the hands ...