A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

Ruben Gutierrez is challenging the constitutionality of a state law that restricts death row inmates from seeking tests that ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible ...

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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Texas death row inmate has the legal right to sue over the state’s laws governing DNA ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman.

That’s what I was told by a mercurial, but well-meaning, great-aunt during my first trip to visit family in Korea when I was ...

His deceased father didn’t want him to know he wasn’t his biological father. I’m torn about whether I should tell him.

If Farwell wasn’t the father of her unborn child, according to new DNA tests, what was his motive to kill her?

Males imprint their DNA by adding methyl modifications to it in a way that alters the activity of genes in order to promote ...