The Genie Is Out of the Bottle' - Work on First Ever Artificial Human DNA Begins The world's largest medical charity has ...

So far, the absence of these characteristic changes in the pre‐contact American contexts suggests that leprosy was one of the many diseases introduced to the continent in the colonial period.

The herpesvirus can manipulate our DNA with far more precision than previously thought. The virus condenses and changes the shape of our genetic material to hijack the host genes needed for ...

More than three decades after the rape of a 12-year-old girl, investigators say DNA evidence allegedly links a Brockton man ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

For nearly 15 years, a man on death row in Texas has sought DNA testing to try and prove he did not kill an 85-year-old woman ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

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The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — DNA recovered from the victim’s fingernail was one piece of evidence that led to the arrest of a ...