For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded ...

Preserving DNA in biological samples has long posed a challenge for researchers, but the process may be about to get a lot ...

DNA testing linked a human skull found in 2004 to Alice Mae Sullivan. 20-year-old Tennessee State University sophomore Alice ...

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery ...

Trees’ inner heartwood harbors methane-producing microbes adapted to oxygen-poor swamps and cow guts ...

A new tool developed at ETH Zurich, MetaGraph, allows scientists to search through vast public DNA and RNA databases in seconds — like a “Google for DNA.” DNA sequencing has transformed biomedical ...

By examining genomic variation more closely, scientists can now identify new disease connections with greater speed and accuracy. For centuries, scientists have recognized that certain illnesses can ...

Naked mole-rats are one of nature's most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ...

"48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty has learned a suspect has been identified in the 1991 murders of four teenage girls in an Austin, Texas, yogurt shop. This is according to one of the original ...

The notorious 1991 yogurt shop murders in Austin, Texas, have finally been solved. DNA evidence has identified Robert Eugene Brashers, a deceased serial killer, as the perpetrator. Brashers, who died ...

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an FBI crime database, government data shows.

With the sky shrouded in a thick haze, the five investigators walked onto the pier near Darwin Beach on Virginia Key on an early Thursday, setting up evidence-detection devices that would remain there ...