Danish scientists have extracted an entire human genome from a prehistoric piece of chewing gum made from birch tar some 5,700 years ago.

Scientists claim modern humans have emerged 200,000 years ago in a region of northern Botswana.

The US government plans to collect the DNA of all migrants who are detained uponb illegally crossing the border.

The genetic mutation given to Chinese twins last year rendering them immune to the HIV virus may significantly reduce life expectancy, scientists say.

Scientists in Britain have used gene-editing techniques to stop bird flu spreading in chicken cells grown in a lab - a key step towards making genetically-altered chickens that could halt a human flu pandemic.

An American Nobel Prize-winning scientist has been stripped of his honorary titles for insisting that genes make black people less intelligent than whites.

A scientist in China claims to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies.