It's long been assumed that as cells divide in the human body, the genome is faithfully replicated in the resulting daughter cells. While errors are known to arise, there is machinery in the cell that ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...

The Alaska Scientific Crime Detection Lab acquired a forensic tool used to test DNA from bones and teeth this summer.

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial sweeteners.

A decades-long North Texas murder case is one step closer to being solved after DNA testing provided crucial information about the victim. A Houston-area lab managed to identify the name of the victim ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man whose body was found in the Mississippi River south of St. Louis in 1994 has finally been identified after authorities exhumed his remains to collect new DNA samples. In the ...

Anxious, grieving, and devastated family members of those who perished in the Air India crash at Ahmedabad have lined up at the Civil Hospital to give DNA samples for the authorities to identify the ...

The world's largest medical charity has given the go-ahead to begin research on what could be the next giant leap in biology. This project aims tocreate artificial human DNA from scratch, according to ...