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 ...

Centuries-old DNA has confirmed that Greenland’s sledge dog Qimmit is the oldest yet known domesticated dog breed, a discovery that sheds more light on their close relationship with the region’s ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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