Police are starting to use newborns' blood samples in criminal investigations involving their parents, alarming privacy advocates and legal scholars.

The question of nature vs. nurture may never be settled when it comes to humans.

Despite dire warnings, we may never be able to custom design humans. And if we ever learn how, we may accidentally drive ourselves into extinction if we try.

Intelligent life on Earth may owe its existence to an ancient virus which inserted its genetic code and machinery into early tetrapods and now helps their neurons talk to each other.

Before you get your DNA tested, remember that most of the baseline samples used to process your genome only come from three countries and your reports will feature a lot of asterisks.

The easy way to make gene therapy more effective may be to resurrect a virus' evolutionary ancestors in a lab...

A new study backs up the idea that autism is a genetic disorder by growing neurons in petri dishes.

Geneticist Jerry Crabtree jumps on the natural-selection-for-humans-is-dead bandwagon with a study of human intelligence that doesn't say what he thinks it does.

Believe it or not, DNA is not the only hereditary molecule out there. In fact, it's one of many molecules that could form the backbone of gene pools.

Culture, not genetics, plays the key role in how much you gossip or how willing you are to talk about your problems.

According to a Muslim creationist, Allah is less of a deity and more of a programmer with a mad scientist streak.

Science writer Nicholas Wade makes the bold claim that belief in the supernatural is genetic but his reasoning and examples fail to live up to the hype.

University of Akron wants its employees' DNA sample for a GATTACA-style future, opening a Pandora's box of legal and ethical concerns.

Sometimes believers don't proselytize because they're sure they have the truth. It's because they need affirmation of their beliefs.

Natural selection is starting to kick in to save the Y chromosome from itself.