I recently sent off a tube of saliva containing enough of my DNA for one of those companies to tell me about my ancestry. I thought I knew my ancestry pretty well and it turns out that I did. The only ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

DNA Repair Pathways in Clinical Practice: Lessons From Pediatric Cancer Susceptibility Syndromes. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation ...

First, the 16 middle and high school students mashed their strawberries into a pulp. Then, they mixed in some shampoo, counting on the soap to break down the plant’s cellular walls. Then, they ...

Researchers have developed a software model that can infer population history from modern DNA. When Charles Darwin first sketched how species evolved by natural selection, he drew what looked like a ...

A group of Cholla High School freshmen got pretty personal Wednesday as part of a biology lesson on DNA and prospective science-related careers. The lesson — put on by University of Arizona students ...

DNA is a biological molecule that contains the instructions an organism needs to function, develop, and reproduce. It is present in all forms of life on earth and contains each organism’s genetic code ...

When you get a DNA test kit, you'll get a set of instructions to follow so you can get a sample of DNA from your body to the lab. You'll either be asked to spit into a tube or wipe a swab around ...