Bronze Age natural selection accelerated human evolution, challenging long-held beliefs about genetic adaptation.

Important uses for genealogy fall into two broad categories — ethnicity and relationships among individuals. Over the next ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

The 2024 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research is awarded to Zhijian (James) Chen for his landmark discoveries that explain how DNA stimulates immune responses. DNA is best known as genetic ...