Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral ...

New genetic results reveal a previously unknown wave of people settled in South America 1,300 years ago and that Indigenous Americans carry remnants of a "ghost lineage." ...

Investigators long knew that the two cases were connected, but were unable to match the DNA sample from the crime scene, the ...

PBGENE-HBV is Precision's wholly owned in vivo gene editing program under investigation in a global first-in-human clinical trial, which is designed to be a potentially curative treatment for chronic ...

Scientists from Skoltech and the University of Potsdam have developed a physical theory that sheds light on how molecular ...

The majority of the court agreed to the stay as James Aren Duckett awaits postconviction DNA testing. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday issued a temporary stay of next week’s scheduled execution ...

An identical twin commits a crime and leaves their DNA at the scene. Can DNA testing reveal which twin is the culprit? This question reportedly came up in a case in France last month, in which the DNA ...

DNA traits are the genetic codes that explain why you look, think, and even behave in certain ways. Each of us has a unique combination of genes that constitute our genetic blueprint. The DNA ...

Although DNA evidence collected in the Nancy Guthrie investigation has yet to yield matches, law enforcement is still bracing for results that could expose cracks in the southern Arizona case ...

Artificial intelligence has gotten a bad reputation lately, and often for good reason. But a team of scientists at Google’s DeepMind now claims to have found a revolutionary use case for AI: helping ...

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to simply help load a factor necessary for the copying of DNA, actually plays a key role in ensuring fast and reliable replication—an insight ...

In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...