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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Changes to a DNA database will likely affect cold case investigations. The site Ancestry.com ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

GEDmatch's new "opt-in" policy went into effect on Sunday. A change to GEDmatch, a third-party genealogy site that's helped crack cold cases through user's DNA, may hinder law enforcement's ability to ...

Our experiences leave traces in the brain, stored in small groups of cells called engrams. Engrams are thought to hold the information of a memory and are reactivated when we remember, which makes ...

23andMe, the world’s leading consumer DNA harvesting enterprise, announced Friday that hackers stole about 14,000 people’s ancestry information, as well as “a significant number of files” about other ...

While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells’ in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows. This means that ...

Polar bears appear to be rewriting parts of their DNA in response to a warming Arctic, according to new research that scientists describe as both alarming and cautiously hopeful. A study from ...