A 2015 report published by a private genomics testing company found that 2% of 345 hot dogs tested contained traces of human ...

A 2015 report published by a private genomics testing company found that 2% of 345 hot dogs tested contained traces of human DNA. However, it was unclear whether that report was a peer-reviewed ...

Most cells are incredibly small. For instance, one human alone consists of approximately 100 trillion cells. Yet, if all of the DNA within just one of these cells were arranged into a single ...

Scientists have produced an updated map of all human DNA which could help to transform medical research. The original human genome, published 20 years ago, is mostly from one person, and does not ...

Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

There are four types of base - adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. All human cells contain DNA. The 3 billion pairs of bases in each cell fit into a space that is six microns across.

Neanderthal DNA was generally "deleterious" to modern humans, meaning it was rapidly weeded out of modern humans' DNA through ...

Human DNA was found on a coyote’s paws (not the one pictured here), linking it to a Thanksgiving day attack on a 4-year-old child in Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife file photo After weeks ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...