More than 200 victims identified as investigators focus on narrowing down cause - Indian aviation regulator finds no major ...

Karen Read has walked out of a Massachusetts court a free woman after a jury found her not guilty of killing her Boston ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull.

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Macquarie University researchers have discovered a naturally occurring protein found in human cells plays a powerful role in ...

LINE-1, a "jumping gene" making up 20% of the genome, invades DNA during cell division using protein-RNA clusters, offering ...

A new study led by Dr. Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible ...

So Homo longi was a Denisovan all along, and thanks to the remarkably well-preserved skull, we finally know what the ...

Palaeontologists used ancient molecules to identify a cranium found near Harbin in northeastern China as belonging to the ...

Cells are constantly subjected to DNA damage from a range of internal and environmental sources. It is estimated that cells ...

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a ...

Rex Heuermann's attorneys are asking for more time as they challenge something called nuclear DNA testing, which has never been used in a New York court of law. The judge has set what's called a ...