Nutrition scientists have been working to understand the relationship between type 2 diabetes and genes that express a ...

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap—the telomere—is worn away. Most cells use an ...

It is one of the biggest jobs in youth football but what is required of the person to take over United's academy?

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

An international study found that air pollution leads to more cancer-related genetic changes than secondhand smoke.

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

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

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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

As war continues to rage in Gaza and Ukraine, there is concern about how the related trauma might be transmitted to future ...