Important uses for genealogy fall into two broad categories — ethnicity and relationships among individuals. Over the next ...

This photograph is an example of DNA separated in a cesium chloride density gradient. Two tubes containing cesium chloride gradients are arranged vertically next to each other. The gradients have ...

In the form of DNA, nature shows how data can be stored in a space-saving and long-term manner. Bioinformatics specialists are developing DNA chips for computer technology. Researchers show how a ...

Fragments of stone tools and occasional skeletal remains provide most of what we know about our cave-dwelling human ancestors and their Neanderthal cousins. But in the past 15 years, archaeologists ...

Suggested Citation: "Executive Summary." National Research Council. 1996. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5141. This committee was ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Bolivian highlands are survivors. For thousands of years they have lived at altitudes of more than two miles, where oxygen is about 35 percent lower than at sea level.

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...