A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a previously unknown connection between two fundamental cellular processes, ...

"It allows officers to place DNA into a machine and instead of waiting weeks or months, you get results on whether that DNA is a single source of human DNA in 90 minutes." ...

Scientists have uncovered genetic evidence that they say may be linked to the Renaissance master, but some experts are more ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

India's hospital chains, diagnostics networks, and global investors have poured millions of dollars into gene sequencing, ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself. The X-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin ...

James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to ...

Scientists found that DNA’s phosphate groups can direct chemical reactions to make the correct mirror-image form of drug molecules. This breakthrough simplifies chiral drug production, reducing waste ...

The homicides of Debra Stone in 1984 and Cynthia McKenna in 2007 have been solved by cold case investigators with the RI attorney general's office. Authorities identified the killers as Robert D.