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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The researchers found health perks directly linked with weight loss through blood test results, including increases in HDL ...