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 ...

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

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

My wife “Sandra” and her siblings recently decided to take one of those Ancestry DNA tests for the purpose of starting a ...

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

DNA is the building block of life — it can tell us a lot about both who we are, and who we may become. DNA is also, ...

Celebrity pop-punk drummer Travis Barker has revealed that he owns a bizarre piece of Rock & Roll history — an empty can ...

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

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...