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

Preserving strips of native vegetation beside avocado orchards gives insects a buffet of wild pollen when blossoms are scarce ...

Akihiko Yamamoto recently connected with his American sister, Sharon Lovell, whom he never knew existed. For most of his life ...

New breakthroughs in DNA analysis offer a chance to identify more of the lost from wars and disasters stretching back decades ...

Teresa Peroni was 27 years old when she disappeared on or around July 4, 1983, in Selma, Oregon. She was last seen with her then-boyfriend Mark Sanfratello.

New DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a 72-year-old man accused of killing his girlfriend more than four decades ago.

Police in Oregon announced that they recently made a breakthrough in the cold case disappearance of 27-year-old Teresa Peroni ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the full genome of a 4,800-year-old Egyptian man. The DNA reveals North African ...

Common bacteria can turn plastic waste into the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen, researchers have discovered.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

While the majority of families consented to the hospital performing last rites as per protocol, 16 families had requested to ...