A genetic study published on Tuesday offers an important new clue. Researchers found that, between 250,000 and 500,000 years ...

Curled up inside every single one of the trillions of cells in the human body is six feet of DNA, spooled tightly and carrying the genetic instructions that govern so much of who a person becomes.

A new discovery offers hope for Huntington’s disease. This discovery provides hope that a DNA repair process may help slow or ...

Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in ...

An ancient-DNA revolution is turning the high-speed equipment used to study the DNA of living things on to specimens from the ...

The effectiveness of a common drug to quit smoking could be down to people's genes, according to a study from the University ...

Gene editing techniques may eventually allow trisomy to be treated at the cellular level, according to an in vitro ...

Stanford Medicine researchers sifted through thousands of single nucleotide mutations in DNA to identify fewer than 400 that are functionally associated with inherited cancer risk.

Learning about your genetics and ancestry is easier than ever. All you need to do is choose from the many DNA ancestry tests available online, receive your kit and send back the required DNA samples.