While police are coy about the exact strategies used to identify killers, the judge in the Desjardins case said, “scientific ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...

In the last decade, archaeologists have learned to read the genetic traces that ancient humans and Neanderthals left not only ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic ...

The oldest sediment DNA discovered so far comes from Greenland and is 2 million years old.

Shoot for the moon and you may land among the stars, as the saying goes. Or, in the case of 14 local college students, aim for Mars and you may arrive on Earth.

It's a common storytelling trope: the stubborn foe who is eventually revealed to be a much-needed friend. Biology has its own ...

Nuclear watchdogs are sounding the alarm after finding that the dome that contains radiation at the Chernobyl disaster site ...

A groundbreaking gene-editing method from UT Austin is changing the game for treating complex genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and Tay Sachs. Using retrons—DNA tools borrowed from ...