In cancer research, one person's junk is increasingly becoming another person's treasure. Scientists have uncovered new evidence showing how recently evolved "junk DNA" genetic elements can become ...

In contrast to those who resided in Siberia, Neanderthals who lived in what's now Belgium and France shortly before the ...

Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated with illnesses such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. The most ...

A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...