A new study led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with international institutions, has ...

The 1991 murder of four teenage girls in a Texas yogurt shop remains unsolved, but there's hope that advancing DNA technology will change that.

When Napoleon’s half-million-strong army retreated from Russia in 1812, around half the men were wiped out by disease, starvation and the extreme cold. Now, state-of-the-art DNA analysis has ...

The cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a puzzling reputation: even though they are treatment mainstays for multiple forms of cancer, they can damage cancer-killing T cells and disrupt the ...

New genetic research suggests that hibernating animals' superpowers could lie hidden in our own DNA—and provides clues on how to unlock them, opening the door to someday developing treatments ...

New research suggests that DNA sequences historically considered to be "junk" have had an overlooked role in gene expression this whole time.

After 32 years, DNA technology identifies remains found in Newburyport as Anthony Angelli Rea, a teen missing since 1988.

A 64-year-old man living in Arizona at the time of his arrest has been charged after DNA linked him to a California cold case.

When environmental stress harms DNA, it can set off a cascade of failures linked to heart conditions, neurodegeneration, and chronic inflammation. A new chemical tool developed at UC Riverside ...

A Pennsylvania man who went missing in the 1980s and whose body was found in 2019 along Interstate 75 has been identified, though police are still working to determine what happened so long ago.

8 children with DNA from 3 people currently healthy Out of 22 women to undergo the treatment at the Newcastle Fertility Centre in northeast England, eight babies were born.

The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.” ...