Previously unmapped sections of the genome explain how cells sense their mechanical environment and could open new paths for ...

Every new life begins after a genetic shuffle. When organisms make eggs or sperm, maternal and paternal chromosomes pair up ...

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Earth’s most diverse biological entities are the viruses that infect bacteria, called bacteriophages (phages). They are rich ...

Researchers work in a mobile Fire-Eye laboratory in Beijing in June 2020. The labs can identify coronavirus infections, as well as decipher and analyze human DNA. (Fu ...

Police in California have used DNA evidence to identify a nationwide serial rapist who killed himself in 1997 after becoming a suspect in a central Indiana rape investigation. Charlie Kirk shooting ...

More than two decades after the Sept. 11 attacks, the medical examiner’s office has identified three additional victims, bringing the total number of identified victims to 1,653. Mark Desire, now an ...

The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that two cold-case home invasion rapes in the 1980s have been connected to four similar sexual assaults in other states, though the ...

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KTLA) – Two cold-case home invasion rapes in the 1980s have been connected to four similar sexual assaults in other states, though the alleged rapist has since died, the ...