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

Genomic data sheds light on how populations of sledge dogs — and their human handlers — have shifted over past 800 years.

Every living cell must interpret its genetic code—a sequence of chemical letters that governs countless cellular functions. A ...

If measured from beginning to end, the DNA in our cells is too long to fit into the cell's nucleus, explaining why it must be ...

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...

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

Creating genomes from DNA is hugely important for managing threatened species—understanding their past and how they have ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

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

The breakthrough in the 2011 case comes after the accused killer's DNA was found to match evidence collected from a woman who ...

DNA evidence has led to an arrest in a cold case that has been active since 2011. According to the Camden County Prosecutors’ ...