Many large mammals have lost genetic diversity, often thanks to the actions of people shrinking their populations. The ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

On May 31, 2024, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Bruce H. Brown, 23, ...

It has only recently been discovered that single-celled organisms (bacteria and archaea) also have histones—proteins that ...

Rodney Reed continues to seek DNA testing on murder evidence in his ongoing legal battle at the Fifth Circuit Court of ...

Way back on February 21, 1951, a family in in Oakland, California was devastated when one their children, a 6-year-old boy, ...

DNA origami is a technique that creates precisely shaped nanostructures. Methods for recycling the DNA strands that are used ...

Stenton and his colleagues have advertised for years at venues, such as museum displays on the Franklin expedition, for DNA samples from people who believe they are descendants of those doomed sailors ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

Scientists have mapped the genome of the Greenland shark, which could offer clues to the animal’s extreme longevity.

DNA from saliva collected on a sidewalk led to the arrest of a Massachusetts man in connection with the 1988 murder of Karen ...

Prosecutors say they have DNA and video evidence that ties Jose Ibarra to the murder of Laken Riley, an Augusta nursing ...