He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Robert Atrops receives a life sentence for the 1988 murder of his wife, based on new DNA evidence from a cold case unit.

Since the mapping of the human genome in 2003, synthetic biology has reached a new milestone. British researchers are now ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Who really won the race to decode the human genome? Inside the cut-throat competition that pushed forward the decoding of the ...

Unlike a novel, however, the genome is a project of continuous revision, locked in a Nietzschean state of perpetual becoming. It is a process that may often be whimsical and capricious.

The massive project will likely take decades to complete, but it has significant oversight built into it to ensure it remains ...

Archaeology & History DNA Analysis Sheds New Light on Christopher Columbus’s Mysterious Origins. New genetic research has revealed that the famed explorer was part Jewish.

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing ...

Human genome editing historically has allowed for precise alterations of single base pairs by excising or inserting new sequences at a single location along the DNA strand. However, conventional gene ...