Roughly 10,500 years ago, a teenage girl popped a piece of ancient “gum” into her mouth and started chewing. She probably had ...

Scientists can start extracting DNA from the rare, often extinct, animal specimens collected over the centuries and preserved in jars of liquid at natural history museums around the world under a new ...

One thing that all the experts agreed on was the challenges that these wild cats face and the need to protect them.

Cutting-edge DNA mapping technology identified new genetic information that can help researchers decipher more genetic diseases, a new study found. The research will be presented at the Pediatric ...

LONDON — A pioneering IVF technique combining DNA from three people to protect a baby from a rare genetic disease has been used in Britain, leading to a healthy cohort of eight babies with no sign of ...

Little is known about the population history of modern humans in Southeast Asia. Scientists have made an "exciting" discovery of ancient human DNA that they say will allow them to piece together the ...