A new installation has been unveiled at The Outernet's Now Trending building in London, designed to show the impact of DNA ...

After 34 years, the Austin Police Department announced Friday it linked a suspect to the murder of four girls who were found ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into ...

A new study in fruit flies describes how an animal's gut reacts differently to beneficial microbes versus harmful pathogens.

The world's oldest DNA comes from a 2.4 million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland. Will scientists eventually sequence even older DNA?

Using the wrong DNA reference genome can lead scientists to false conclusions about wildlife health and survival.

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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.

By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating ...

Austin police solved the 1991 "Yogurt Shop Murders" using advanced DNA technology, identifying Robert Eugene Brashers as the ...

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