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

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

A massive breakthrough in the JonBenét Ramsey cold case has been made as an investigator’s secret spreadsheet nail the beauty ...

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 ...

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

Genomic data shed light on how populations of sled dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

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

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

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