Scientists have sequenced DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record. The intact cheese was ...

Marcellus Williams was executed by Missouri on Tuesday evening for the 1998 murder of journalist despite objections from his ...

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 ...

A 62-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 1982 murder of Odessa woman Velma Nesset, after new DNA ...

New technology is making it easier to find the origins of trafficked wildlife so they can be released back to the habitat ...

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

COLOTECT®, a stool DNA testing kit developed by BGI Genomics, emerged as a promising solution. Professor Wu Xiaojian from the ...

The past decade has seen a tremendous increase of genetic sequence data for biodiversity assessments and research.

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

A mother faked a DNA test in an attempt to stop the father of her newborn daughter from seeing the baby, a court has heard.

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