UPDATE 1/24/22: AP reports that the Rhode Island D...  ...ode Island Department of Health has completed its DNA examination of the Santa Claus evidence. It could...  ...laus evidence. It could not match the sample with DNA in its database, although there is a partial matc...  ...us and the carrots for his reinde...

Modern DNA sequencing is adding to our knowledge of human mi...  ...ow that these humans interbred and left traces of DNA , but now we have an example of a human whose two...  ...least 13 years old at the time of her death; six DNA extractions and subsequent genome sequencing re...

Carl Zimmer's new book She Has Her Mother’s...  ...such as royal inbreeding, eugenics, mitochondrial DNA vs. chromosomal DNA , and the weird things that can happen along the w...

Thanks to companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA,...  ...companies like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, personal DNA testing is hot. For a couple hundred dollars or l...  ...t, as in one memorable ad. Most of us recall when DNA sequencing was cutting edge technology, and took...  ...ple? Well, for one thing, they don't...

It's been more than a year now since astronaut Sco...  ...in expression after spaceflight, in areas such as DNA repair, the immune system, how bones are formed,...  ...a more theoretical question arises: if one twin's DNA changes, are Mark and Scott still identical? Read...

The workings of the human body on the cellular lev...  ...n the cellular level is astounding. A molecule of DNA carries the genetic encoding for an entire being,...

Surrealist painter Salvador Dali died in 1989 and...  ...he museum closed in order to extract tissue for a DNA test. Narcís Bardalet, the embalmer wh...  ...lectric saw was needed to take samples. After the DNA test, the samples will be returned to the crypt....  ...will be returned to the crypt. The...

If you draw the usual family tree, you can potenti...  ...t's OK to Be Smart explain how human ancestry and DNA diversity really works. -via Geeks Are Sexy

We all know octopuses and squid are weird. What yo...  ...ption to how living things use the information in DNA to make proteins. In nearly every other animal, R...

The flavors you like are partially based on how se...  ...reating custom brews for customers based on their DNA . Using a saliva sample to analyze what flavor com...