It is not a completely far-out scenario that the genetic sequence of all newborn babies may one day be collected by default, writes Dita De Boni.

Advanced DNA tests led police to solve the nine-year-old murder case of Marie Jamieson.

Medical researchers have begun to elucidate the complex role of genes in human health.

As negotiators are stalled in a deal to unite Cyprus, forensic experts are helping to bury the ghosts of a bloody conflict.

Professor Richard Faull has spent 35 years studying the human brain so he can help people affected by brain disorders including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.

National belt-tightening could be of more benefit to a country's sense of wellbeing than soaring wealth levels, a study has found.

IVF clinics are using a radical male infertility treatment too often despite the long-term risks to the babies conceived, one of the technique's pioneers says.

The findings of a study released in Britain this week promise to send alarm bells ringing in the heads of parents everywhere, writes Dita De Boni.

Eat your five-a-day, take exercise, avoid alcohol, sugar, stress... Obsessing about our well-being is dominating our lives - and it's bad for us.

The first, almost complete genome of an ancient human has revealed traits of a man living 4000 years ago.

Scientists have found that people who inherit two copies of a particular DNA variant show the biological signs of being about eight years "older" than people of the same age who carry neither genetic variant.

Millions of people who strive to keep fit by jogging, swimming or going to the gym are wasting their time, scientists say.

Scientists have succeeded in reading the mind of a man thought to have been lacking all awareness after a traumatic head injury.

Scientists have for the first time found powerful evidence that genius may be linked with madness.

Medical journal's editors retract paper 12 years after it was published, saying several of its elements are "incorrect".

Scientists are investigating a possible link between a rare degenerative nerve disease and a toxic gas blamed for four Nelson port workers 'deaths.

The day when patients can "swallow their doctor" has come a step closer with the development of a submicroscopic nanoparticle that acts as an intelligent pill.

Chimpanzees have been seen performing a "fire dance" in behaviour that could indicate an ability to understand and even control fire.