Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double helix.

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:APDN) (”Applied DNA” or the “Company”), a leader in PCR-based DNA technologies, today announced that it will resume a regular quarterly investor call schedule, beginning

What if your body’s age wasn’t just the number of birthdays you’ve had? Scientists are now exploring a new way to track the passage of time inside your cells—by measuring how unpredictable certain patterns in your DNA become as you grow older.

Scientists studying ancient human remains uncovered in Colombia have found that the people they were researching have no known ancestors or modern descendants.

Billy Idol has a son named Willem and a daughter named Bonnie. It just so happened that the rock star also had a third child — but he discovered this in his 60s. As People notes, the British punk icon,

Not all DNA looks like the familiar twisted ladder. Sometimes, parts of our genetic code fold into unusual shapes. One such structure, the G-quadruplex (G4), looks like a knot.

The viral claim that Saudi Arabia’s “Sleeping Prince” woke up from a 20-year coma is false; the video actually shows rally driver Yazeed Al-Rajhi recovering from an accident.

After an innocent man served 20 years for the brutal 1980 slaying of an Ayer woman, DNA testing has revealed the likely true killer, investigators announced Thursday. Evidence taken at the murder scene of 48-year-old Katharina Reitz Brow has been tested using forensic investigative DNA technology,