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

For decades, gene-editing science has been limited to making small, precise edits to human DNA, akin to correcting typos in ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...

By combining the information storage capabilities of DNA with a design inspired by a cassette tape, researchers have created ...

After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced on Monday, Sept. 29 that the infamous Yogurt Shop Murders had been solved.

For a series with only one human character and the majority of the main cast buried under layers of prosthetics and makeup, ...

For decades, scientists thought the noncoding parts of DNA were useless leftovers. Today, that view has completely changed.

David Ussery discuss work using high-performance computing for the analysis of millions of viral genome sequences ...

A judge in New York rejected a request on 23 September to disqualify the use of cutting-edge DNA sequencing as evidence in a ...

Leonardo Gomes de Lima, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the Gerton Lab, led the research. The findings show how these chromosome fusions form, why they remain stable, and how repetitive DNA, once ...