Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A global team of scientists has discovered how to make more accurate predictions of genetic mutations that ...

Scientists say using math to sort through DNA could help investigators put stubborn cold cases to rest. The approach combines the relatively new field of forensic genetic genealogy—solving crime by ...

For over a thousand years, the story of human evolution was simple: Homo sapiens developed in Africa between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago from a single line of forebears. But today, one research has ...

Scientists have developed a way to sift through millions of differences in a person’s genetic blueprint to detect those that threaten our health, and have tested the new tool on a biomedical database ...