DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...

A federal judge has given attorneys for the man accused of killing 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue four years ago permission to send biological materials from the defendant and ...

Defense attorneys in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting said in a court filing this week that 11 of 17 plastic tubes of evidence provided to them for independent DNA testing were empty when they ...

The results, set to air in a new documentary, draw on material gathered in the chaotic final moments of the Second World War.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Millions of Americans have used at-home DNA test kits. Now there are new concerns over who has that information and what they can do with it. It didn’t have to be ...

A U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled that bankrupt DNA-testing company 23andMe has the right to sell its customers’ DNA data to potential bidders. But 23andMe has no such right. In fact, it would be ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — James D. Watson, the pioneering molecular biologist whose 1953 co‑discovery of the DNA ...

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla.,None — A DNA mix-up could mean a new trial for a convicted rapist in Seminole County. Andrew Lingard went to prison four years ago for attacking a woman in her Altamonte Springs ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This ...

Google’s Doodle for November 13, 2025, turns the spotlight on one of life’s greatest scientific wonders - DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic blueprint for every living organism. The animated ...

The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we ...