Scientist helped break new ground in study of genetics, but later caused outcry with promotion of racist ideas.

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

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The failure of Scottish policing bodies to record the ethnicity of arrested people it takes DNA samples from means there is no way of establishing whether minority groups are over-represented in ...

The human genome is riddled with relics of viral infections—bits of DNA from viruses that have been inserted in human DNA ...

A new company, Nucleus Genomics, recently announced a whole new program of genetic testing. It is way past anything that you ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of people of sub-Saharan African descent living in Britain more than 1,300 years ago. It's not only the earliest evidence in Britain of people with recent Black ...

DNA from a smoothie straw, prosecutors say, could now be the key piece of evidence they need to convict her killer. Theresa Fusco went missing November 10, 1984. She was last seen late that night ...

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UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A recent study claimed that Christopher Columbus may have been Jewish. New research unveiled in a documentary on Spain's RTVE suggested that Christopher Columbus may ...