A deeper understanding of how DNA changes over generations helps scientists learn why people differ and how diseases develop.

New research has discovered that the Herpes virus actually takes control of key RNA functionality and changes human DNA in ...

The mystery of the “non-human” mummified remains found in Peru deepened this week when an analyst claimed that 30% of its DNA is not human — but is rather from an “unknown species.” ...

Human DNA was recovered from a footprint on a Florida beach.(Dr. David Duffy, the University of Florid) Environmental DNA has been obtained from air, soil, sediment, water, permafrost, snow and ...

For nearly a decade, social media users have claimed that traces of human DNA exist in hot dogs. A study cited by many people was first published in 2015 and resurfaced in 2024.

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. — Fact (@Fact) June 28, 2023. Though commonly repeated, there is no scenario in which "humans and bananas share 50% of their DNA" could be interpreted ...

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

Human DNA recovered from remains found in Europe is revealing our species’ shared history with Neanderthals. The trove is the oldest Homo sapiens DNA ever documented, scientists say.

Footprints left on a beach. Air breathed in a busy room. Ocean water. Scientists have been able to collect and analyze detailed genetic data from human DNA from all these places, raising thorny ...

Clear Labs wrote in a single document released on Oct. 17, 2015, that 2% of 345 hot dogs it tested contained traces of human ...