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 ...

I was one of the first to spit into a test tube, giving up my DNA forever to learn more about my health and heredity. You know, the ones that promise to connect you with distant relatives you didn’t ...

In the last decade, the drive to understand who we are and where we've come from has been accelerated by DNA testing.

A lab that handles tens of thousands of dollars worth of DNA testing in police investigations plans to soon stop accepting out-of-state samples, a move that officials say poses a problem for Arkansas ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...