66 years after the discovery of the structure of DNA, a position statement by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists clarifies what it tells us about human variation.

In her book The Lost Family, Libby Copeland explores the confusing landscape of DNA testing and lays out the limits of looking to your genes for answers.

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

Now she is leading a research team that is uncovering how 716 of these human-specific DNA regions work together to create the biological traits that differentiate us from other primates.

The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed.

Human DNA is littered with copies of these short retroviral genomes, many from viruses that caused diseases millions of years ago and that may no longer circulate.

Neanderthals still shared the Earth with our ancestors. Recent discoveries are challenging our linear view of human evolution. Advances in genetics reveal that our ...

Patients and doctors need to have access to them and patient privacy must be protected at the same time, the author writes.

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the ...