DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

For decades, the dream of fixing harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA felt out of reach. Scientists have long known these ...

MANILA, Philippines — The DNA samples of at least 12 relatives of the missing sabungeros (cockfighting aficionados) and possible human remains earlier retrieved from the Taal Lake are now up for ...

Two New York men imprisoned as teenagers have been exonerated in a 1994 killing. A judge scrapped Brian Boles and Charles ...

Franklin W. Stahl, an American molecular biologist whose landmark 1957-58 experiment with colleague Matthew Meselson revealed ...

Ancient DNA from prehistoric bones reveals a 37,000-year timeline of human infections, tracing our long struggle with disease.

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Powerful new applications of what is known as next-generation sequencing are now helping with identification of degraded ...