The Gilgo Beach murder case is moving toward a trial, but two defense requests are slowing things down. Rex Heuermann's attorneys are asking for more time as they challenge something called nuclear ...

This article was authored by Dr Syeda Zubeda Medical Geneticist and Senior Genetic Counselor, Strand Life Sciences ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

French digital data startup Biomemory SAS has announced what it claims is the first instance of DNA-based storage being made available to the general public, with the launch of its new DNA memory ...

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Researchers identified a new, sticky form of mitochondrial DNA damage that builds up at dramatically higher levels than in ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

Last month, Chenedy Wiles finally got around to it. The 27-year-old traveling nurse spit into a tube and mailed it to 23andMe, where the genetic testing company’s lab examined her DNA and generated a ...

On a warm, sunny day in April, biologists David Duffy and Jessica Farrell prepare to motor down the Matanzas River on a small boat to catalog the area’s aquatic life. Ripples signal the river’s lazy ...

A previously unknown type of DNA damage in the mitochondria, the tiny power plants inside our cells, could shed light on how ...

Scientists find the DNA of a 300,000-year-old horse in Schöningen, driven to extinction by hunting, next to a wooden spear ...