Learn how newly discovered genetic regions may help explain Alzheimer’s risk, pointing to brain immune cells, neurons, and ...

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit ...

CRISPR Cas9 genome editing has transformed the way scientists approach gene therapy, acting like precise DNA scissors that can target and repair hereditary diseases at the genetic level. This ...

When it comes to linking a suspect to a crime, most people assume that DNA evidence is nearly irrefutable. DNA carries a unique fingerprint, so if a suspect's genetic code is matched to DNA found at ...

A new DNA analysis of Peru’s mysterious conehead mummies failed to fully explain the origins of the Paracas skulls.

Experts compared DNA from 49 skeletons buried in a cemetery in St. Mary's City to genetic data shared by 11.5 million 23andMe users. They also identified a skeleton that be the remains of the colony's ...