We wanted to see if Ancestry can actually reveal a person’s family history and what records were available in its database, ...

The remains of a World War II airman from western Pennsylvania have been accounted for, officials announced Tuesday, 81 years after he was killed in action. The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff ...

The remains of a Westmoreland County airman killed during World War II have been identified more than eight decades after his death, federal officials announced ...

UK health agency advertises nursing role for families in cousin marriages linked to higher genetic risks for children in ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a promising gene-editing therapy that directly corrects a genetic mutation responsible for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), the most common ...

Researchers have reported that a topical gene therapy which can correct disease-causing mutations directly in human skin, raising the prospect of durable treatments for rare genetic skin ...

Scientists at a secretive Florida DNA lab are analyzing key evidence that could unlock the mystery of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding for diverse biological applications, such as proteins that form the building ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

DNA is the blueprint for life, influencing everything about us—including our health. We know that our genes, the genetic “words” that encode proteins, play a major role in health and disease. But the ...