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 ...

A massive breakthrough in the JonBenét Ramsey cold case has been made as an investigator’s secret spreadsheet nail the beauty ...

Scientists have uncovered DNA from 214 ancient pathogens in prehistoric humans, including the oldest known evidence of plague ...

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

An experimental treatment called VERVE-102 lowers the amount of "bad" cholesterol in the blood of people with specific ...

The foundation, Identiteit Gezocht (Identity Sought), aims to list all unknown graves on the coasts of the North Sea, hoping ...

Though sea spiders have thrived for millions of years in a variety of marine conditions—in cold Antarctic waters, on deep ...

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 ...

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, ...

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