As cybercriminals leverage generative AI to craft hyper-realistic phishing campaigns and deepfake-enhanced attacks, the ...

Ancestry lays off 100 employees as DNA test demand dwindles. Ancestry has announced that it had to lay off six percent of its ...

More than 60 years after its discovery, scientists are still learning surprising ways DNA stores and translates instructions ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising secret about our DNA: it’s not a static blueprint, but a constantly shifting, folding structure that helps control how genes turn on and off. Researchers at the ...

In 2016, Irma Carrillo Nevares swabbed the inside of her cheek and signed a consent form allowing the Colibrí Center for Human Rights to add her DNA to its database. Carrillo Nevares’ son and daughter ...

Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms ...

While humans often struggle to find a partner who is both physically attractive and a reliable co-parent, yeast may already have cracked the formula for the perfect match. When choosing mates, these ...

Neanderthals split into distinct regional groups that developed genetic differences far sooner than modern human populations typically did, according to a study published in Proceedings of the ...

New study finds junk DNA may actually protect the body from colorectal cancer. Learn how your genetic 'clutter' is actually a shield.

For all the dreaming, computers cannot be humans, who are born and are made of mush and water and have to go to the bathroom ...