A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

In the Rice DNA Discovery Center, peek directly inside our state-of-the-art genetic research facility, the Pritzker Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Systematics. Scientists are in the ...

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist ...

Cancer research, drug safety testing and aging biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at ...

Imagine the human genome as a string stretching out for the length of a football field, with all the genes that encode proteins clustered at the end near your feet. Take two big steps forward; all the ...

Project to assign DNA barcodes to all 49,000 known species across Netherlands to help scientists monitor biodiversity - ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The news came four years ago, at the end of a casual phone call. Bill’s ...

Genealogists use open-source data to build the family tree to find the most recent common ancestors and identify a suspect. Investigators then confirm their suspicion by obtaining the suspect’s DNA ...

WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Decades after investigators unearthed thousands of human bones and bone fragments on a suspected Indiana serial killer’s property, a renewed quest is playing out in laboratories ...