In the past twenty years, major technological advances in extracting and analyzing DNA have transformed the ability to ...

Ingredients essential to kick-start life have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu. NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists ...

A new portable DNA test can identify dozens of shark and ray species in only two hours, giving frontline officers a powerful ...

A tiny sample of DNA on a discarded cigarette butt - perfectly preserved for more than two decades - finally proved to be the ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Speculation about his parentage has dogged the Duke of Sussex throughout his life, but an AI-generated clip did nothing to ...

Cedars-Sinai scientists have developed an experimental drug that repairs DNA and serves as a prototype for a new class of ...

Cedars-Sinai scientists have created a new experimental drug called TY1 that helps the body repair damaged DNA and restore ...

The tool gained prominence in criminal investigations in 2018, when police used it to identify the Golden State Killer, who ...

Centuries-old genetic material can solve historical mysteries, from lost species to what killed Napoleon’s army.

The answers were always there, waiting as the years and decades ticked by: Who killed five people kidnapped from a Kentucky ...