Richmond, VA, Feb. 27, 2003 – A new Harris poll released today shows that the "DNA I.Q." of American adults is much higher expected. The poll found that 60% of US adults got the right answer when ...

Lifestyle, or put another way 'bad habits', is one of the textbook explanations for why some people are at higher risk for cancer. We often hear that smoking increases our risk of developing lung ...

College of Liberal Arts Associate Professor of Anthropology Marin Pilloud is part of a team of 57 geneticists, anthropologists and archaeologists across the globe studying ancient burial sites linked ...

DNA runs on just four letters, but scientists have now added new ones—and the code still works. This breakthrough could reshape medicine, biology, and even the definition of life.