An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for gay couples or women with fertility problems to have children they ...

A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop. Until recently, many fast-changing parts of the human genome remained ...

Infections particular to our genome may have helped drive human-specific traits — plus, using heat to power DNA computers.

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...