Are humans evolving more through culture than DNA? A new study explores how medicine, technology, and institutions may guide ...

The method, known as EVOFLUx, uses natural fluctuations in DNA methylation as a kind of molecular “barcode” to reconstruct a ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

The Atlas blue butterfly, with a record-breaking 229 pairs of chromosomes, is helping scientists unravel mysteries of ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new ...