A discredited forensic scientist who analysed DNA evidence for the Crown in hundreds of criminal cases received almost $2.8 ...

A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...

A collaborative effort by the Formosa-Jordan lab from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, ...

By looking at maggots’ genes and metabolic changes, investigators can better predict time of death, the researchers said.

DNA nanostructures are exciting new biomedical tools with myriad potential in treatment, diagnosis and disease prevention.

High-resolution imaging has revealed the internal layout of chromatin condensates, showing how DNA fibers fold and interact ...

These articles describe how new forensic and DNA technologies have helped investigators resolve long-unsolved cases. Each story shows law enforcement reopening cold cases as tools improved.

Researchers created a highly efficient gene-editing method that fixes multiple DNA mutations in a single step. The breakthrough could revolutionize genetic medicine by making treatments for complex ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest infectious diseases we know. It commonly impacts the lungs, but can also affect other areas of the body like the spine, brain or kidneys.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new suite of statistical methods that dramatically improves ...

Researchers develop a molecular testing-based fast-throughput method for the rapid and early detection of Salmonella ...

When cells proliferate, genomic DNA is precisely duplicated once per cell cycle. Abnormalities in this DNA replication process can cause alterations in genomic DNA, promoting cellular ageing, cancer, ...