Visualizing and quantifying DNA replication dynamics in living human cells remains challenging. Here, a new super-resolution ...

Cells all require the transport of materials to maintain their function. In nerve cells, a tiny motor made of protein called ...

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

Lt. Trampas Gooding explains how very recent advancements in DNA analysis have pushed cold case investigators to retest evidence, even if it was tested in recent years.

In 2013, a Redding cleanup crew discovered a human skull in a patch of blackberry bushes along an irrigation canal. Despite a ...

K OTA KINABALU - A senior chemist testified during the inquest into the death of Zara Qairina Mahathir today that bloodstains ...

Before, it used to take ages to gain understanding of a person’s genetic makeup, but thanks to breakthroughs in high-performance computing, what once required days of waiting for results can now be ...

Inside the forensic lab where the tiniest trace of red shimmer—the "nearly perfect" form of proof—closed a case.

Some of the decomposing bodies discovered inside Davis Mortuary in Pueblo had been there for more than a decade and now DNA must be used to help with the identification process.

Exposures before birth and in early life, including paternal smoking and maternal obesity, are key predictors of lung health ...

Yet fieldwork in post-atrocity settings is never straightforward. It is complex, emotionally demanding and marked by ethical risks. In a recent article published in the peer-reviewed Journal of ...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed ...