Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The ...

James Fitzjames was one of the captains of British explorer Sir John Franklin's two ships that went missing in 1845.

The skeletal remains of a senior officer of Sir John Franklin's 1845 Northwest Passage expedition have been identified by ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

Celebrated Italian horror soundtrack maestro Fabio Frizzi brings his current tour to the DNA Lounge Wednesday night, ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

New DNA analysis rules out the possibility that Kaspar Hauser was a “lost prince” kidnapped as a child nearly two centuries ...

AGAWAM — The Woo family, with roots in China, Los Angeles and here in the Pioneer Valley, had long sought a medal honoring a ...

Rodney Reed continues to seek DNA testing on murder evidence in his ongoing legal battle at the Fifth Circuit Court of ...

A mother faked a DNA test in an attempt to stop the father of her newborn daughter from seeing the baby, a court has heard.