DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

From detecting a risk for a certain disease or solving a criminal case, the discovery of DNA has forever changed our lives.

Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

Here is a detailed guide with steps to upgrade the DNA machine in Grow a Garden, along with what items are required for it.

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...