UC Berkeley researchers have identified regions of DNA that humans inherited from two unknown ancestors as a result of ...

The first complete draft of the human genome was published back in 2003. Since then, researchers have worked both to improve the accuracy of human genetic data, and to expand its diversity, looking at ...

Scientists have found the first direct evidence of the powerful role our genetic makeup plays in influencing our risk of ...

Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful of people. Building upon its success, the 1000 Genomes Project was ...

Parents pass their genes down to their kids, with a child inheriting about 50% of their genome from each parent. But there is another kind of genetic code known as the epigenome that can also be ...

In flowering plants, the genomes of cytoplasmic organelles – mitochondria and plastids – are typically inherited from the maternal parent, insulating them from the recombination that operates on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Modern wolves and dogs both descend from an ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears. Iza Lyson ...

Genetic differences play a vital role in determining how cancerous tumours develop and evolve, helping to explain why some people get the disease while others do not, according to a new study ...

Bivalve mollusks display one of the most intriguing exceptions to strict maternal inheritance of mitochondria in the animal kingdom. In many bivalves, a system known as doubly uniparental inheritance ...

Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia. Domesticated species are the plants and animals that have evolved to live ...