DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

Here is a detailed guide with steps to upgrade the DNA machine in Grow a Garden, along with what items are required for it.

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Customers of the genetic testing company 23andMe have until July 14 to file a claim as part of a restructuring in its ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...