Virgin motherhood is no myth – sharks, birds and lizards can hatch from unfertilised eggs.

Marine biologists have discovered the remnants of ancient RNA viruses embedded in the DNA of symbiotic organisms living inside reef-building corals.

One of the most damaging invasive species in the oceans has breached a major barrier – the Amazon-Orinoco river plume – and is spreading along Brazil’s coast. Scientists are trying to catch up.

A chemical formed when we digest a common artificial sweetener breaks up DNA, according to new research.

A Harvard Medical School study shows the sex hormone estrogen — thus far thought to be only a fuel for breast cancer growth — can directly cause tumor-driving genomic rearrangements.

Human DNA can be found nearly everywhere. That's good news for science, but bad news for privacy.

Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the unintentional pickup of human genetic information raises ethical questions.

Genetics expert Jean Bennett explains how gene therapy is being used to treat certain forms of inherited blindness.

With the new method, scientists can explore many cancer mutations whose roles are unknown, helping them develop new drugs that target those mutations.