Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. DNA testing has been a major step in advancing people’s genealogy in recent years. But ...

Tiny tweaks in DNA folding can have big effects. A study from Umeå University shows that even the most subtle changes in ...

You likely know that you get half of your DNA from your mother and the other half from your father. It is this type of basic ...

Day in and day out, the DNA in our cells is damaged for a variety of reasons, and thus DNA-repair systems are fundamental to the maintenance of life. Now scientists have confirmed and clarified key ...

Rapid City Society for Genealogical Research will explore how to use DNA testing in genealogy research, where to find reputable genealogy information online and much ...

For the past 17 years, most scientists around the globe have been using the nucleic acid sequence, or genome, an assembly of DNA information, from primarily a single individual as a kind of "baseline" ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps ...

DNA is like a biological computer chip, storing vast amounts of information. The basic units of operation for DNA computation are short strands of synthetic DNA. Researchers can change the "program" ...

Popular Science shows how extracting DNA from your cells is surprisingly simple and easy to do. Touching Base is the dynamic podcast series from the editors of GEN. Each episode features a rotating ...