Living past the age of 100 has long fascinated scientists and the public alike. While advances in medicine and healthier ...

In a Quebec courtroom last October, Sylvie Desjardins delivered a message to her daughter's killer that was 30 years in the ...

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...

The research represents a major step forward in revealing how the three dimensional form of DNA shapes the way human biology functions. In a major step toward understanding how the physical form of ...

Your next favorite true crime podcast might have some new forensics jargon to make sense of. Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to identify humans – similar to how we do with DNA and ...

What scientists long believed were knots in DNA may actually be persistent twists formed during nanopore analysis, revealing ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study led by researchers from the University of Oregon dug into limitations of a forensic tool used at crime scenes — discovering one way that people may be incorrectly ...

Aortic stenosis is a narrowing of the aortic valve, which connects the heart to the rest of the body. It affects millions of ...

This image compares three DNA sequencing technologies: Sanger sequencing, Massively Parallel DNA sequencing, and Nanopore DNA sequencing. Sanger sequencing (left) sequences 500-700 bases per reaction ...

The species Orcinus orca, generally known as orcas or killer whales, is made up of many genetically distinct populations ...