Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The lead prosecutor tasked with finding justice for four University of Idaho students killed in a grisly ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Mitochondria are the body's "energy factories," and their proper function is essential for life. Inside mitochondria, a set ...

Detectives struck investigative gold in late 2022 when a used Q-tip linked Bryan Kohberger to the heinous murders of four ...

Prosecutors laid out key evidence against Bryan Kohberger this week after he agreed to plead guilty to killing four ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...