Life depends on genes being switched on and off at exactly the right time. Even the simplest living organisms do this, but usually over short distances across the DNA sequence, with the on/off switch ...

African wild dogs are carnivores always thought to hunt in packs. But new DNA analysis has found they also eat small birds ...

At MIT, one genome researcher is testing a different approach. Bin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and the leader of ...

The new reptile species had previously been thought to belong to the American crocodile, which has a widespread range.

A forensic genetic genealogy team has uncovered a mystery behind a partial human skull found 32 years ago on a beach in Northern California.

After a decades-long mystery, authorities have identified a John Doe who was found murdered behind a cafe in northern Arizona ...

Your stress might actually be altering your child’s developing nervous system through biological pathways you’ve never ...

This demonstrates that DNA metabarcoding (identifying DNA by comparing it with what's already ... You upload a mystery sequence, and GenBank helps "match" it to a known sequence.

In the earliest hours after fertilization, an embryo takes its first steps toward becoming a living organism by shedding ...

Something else Doom: The Dark Ages does to differentiate itself from its predecessors is mix up the kind of levels you play ...